Postgres is Enough

postgresql_is_enough.md

PostgreSQL is Enough

See the new site: https://postgresisenough.dev

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• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• Just use Postgres
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

• https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron
• https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_timetable
• https://github.com/crunchydata/pg_incremental

Message Queues

• https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023-09-24-choose-postgres-queue-technology
• https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq

GIS/Mapping

• https://github.com/postgis/postgis

Audit Logs

• https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables
• https://github.com/supabase/supa_audit
• https://github.com/pgMemento/pgMemento
• https://github.com/pgaudit/pgaudit

Access Control & Authorization

• https://github.com/arkhipov/acl
• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgcrypto.html
• https://github.com/michelp/pgjwt
• https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/vault

Search

• https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
• Vecto: Hybrid Search with Postgres (pgvector) and Elixir (Ecto)
• Postgres Full Text Search (bunch of helpful links)
• https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb
• https://github.com/postgresml

Time Series

• https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb

Column Oriented

• https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_analytics
• https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_lakehouse
• https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra
• https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw

NoSQL

• https://github.com/microsoft/documentdb
• https://www.ferretdb.com
• https://github.com/event-driven-io/Pongo
• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html
• https://github.com/robconery/dox

Graph Data

• https://age.apache.org
• https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb

Foreign Data

• https://github.com/supabase/wrappers

Custom Types

• pgPDF: pdf type for Postgres

Alternative Query Langauges

• https://github.com/kaspermarstal/plprql
• https://supabase.github.io/pg_graphql

HTTP

• https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-http
• https://github.com/supabase/pg_net

APIs

• https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
• https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
• https://postgraphile.org
• https://supabase.github.io/pg_graphql

Events, Replication, CDC,

• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html
• https://github.com/cpursley/walex (subscribe to Postgres WAL events - powers Appraisal Inbox)
• https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb
• https://github.com/debezium/debezium
• https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/pglogical

Caching

• https://martinheinz.dev/blog/105
• https://github.com/readysettech/readyset

Unit Tests

• https://github.com/theory/pgtap
• https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb

HTML and Applications

• SQLpage
• Omnigres
• pg_render
• plmustache

Graphics / Visual

• pgSVG

Migrations

• https://github.com/purcell/postgresql-migrations
• https://www.bytebase.com/
• https://github.com/xataio/pgroll
• https://github.com/stripe/pg-schema-diff

Performance Tuning

• https://github.com/nexsol-technologies/pgassistant
• Index Advisor
• Dexter
• HypoPG
• pg_hint_plan
• PGHero
• https://codeberg.org/Data-Bene/StatsMgr

Scaling

• How Cloudflare Achieved 55 Million Requests per Second with Just 15 PostgreSQL Clusters!
• https://github.com/supabase/supavisor
• https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
• https://www.pgbouncer.org/
• https://github.com/pg-sharding/spqr

Dashboards / UIs

• Baserow
• NocoDB
• AppSmith

Data Visualization

• Evidence
• Metabase

Package Management

• https://github.com/pgxman/pgxman
• https://github.com/supabase/dbdev

Language Servers

• https://github.com/supabase/postgres_lsp

In-Browser & WASM

• https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
• https://github.com/instantdb/instant

Miscellaneous

• Very comprehensive list of Postgres tooling

What's missing? Please share in the comments or submit a pr: https://github.com/agoodway/postgresisenough

Great! That this idea is getting traction :-)

This is missing data warehousing, reporting and analytics.

@kenfar Any suggestions for those?

@cpursley @kenfar its deprecated but technically tobs can be salveged for this purpose: https://github.com/timescale/tobs

@cpursley - no product is needed, just the right features:

• partitioning
• query parallelism
• dimensional model (rather than say one-big-table)
• pre-computed aggregate tables for common queries
• appropriate hardware (sufficient memory, cpu, maybe very fast IO)

This is missing an MPP configuration (data distributed across multiple servers working together on queries), and columnar structures. But, those aren't absolutely essential.

My Postgres collection, perhaps you'd like to use some of the items as well. Here is my list of Postgres blogs worth visiting regularly.

These are great @mjf, thanks! I added a link under miscellaneous.

I've recently put together the Rust crate postgresql-embedded that will allow you to embed PostgreSQL into an executable for use in environments where downloading the installation may not be an option.

@cpursley @kenfar checkout https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra and https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb for analytics/column stores.

I have been using https://github.com/sqitchers/sqitch for a while on production to handle migrations with Postgres it works perfectly.

https://graphjin.com for purely GraphQL API goodness?

For analytics:

pg_lakehouse (by ParadeDB): https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_lakehouse -- Fast analytics from Postgres over local Parquet files, data lakes (S3, GCS, etc.), and lakehouses (Delta Lake, Iceberg)

pg_analytics (by ParadeDB): https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_analytics -- Columnar storage in Postgres for fast analytics inside Postgres tables

For NoSQL:

https://martendb.io/

Not sure if it’s any good, but PostgresML claims to do RAG infra (for use with LLMs and chat bots).

Amazing list, very helpful.

Scaling section can be improved further.

Connection Pools and Load balancers: (similar to Supavisor added by you)
PgCat
PgBouncer
PgPool-II

Sharding:
Citus can be under scaling as well due to sharding capability.

I am not sure below Postgres derivatives can be part of the list as they are not open source but they are part of Postgres compatible scaling solutions.
Distributed Postgres flavors:
Yugabyte
Multi-master Postgres derivatives for scaling :
Spock
EDB Postgres-distributed
AWS PGACTIVE

I'd like to know how postgres can join to the blockchain world since this is a less discussed topic.

For scaling: https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat

For search: https://github.com/postgresml

For RAG/ML/AI: https://github.com/postgresml

recommend adding https://anyblockers.com/posts/postgres-as-a-search-engine under #Search

Edgedb should be in there somewhere.

I would love to see some self hosting best practices and gotchas!

https://codeberg.org/Data-Bene/StatsMgr was just introduced as advanced statistics management

GIS/Mapping: https://github.com/pgRouting

Cloud native Postgres: https://cloudnative-pg.io/

Worth mentioning pgroonga for advanced multilingual search https://pgroonga.github.io/

Great repo - @cpursley !!

I’d suggest adding this 5-part blog series on advanced data science with PostgreSQL window functions:
https://data-nerd.blog/tag/window-functions/

Covers ranking, rolling stats, gaps/islands, and more—pure SQL, no external tooling. Could fit under Analytics or Advanced SQL with PostgreSQL.

This is interesting too https://www.malloydata.dev/ and https://github.com/malloydata/malloy

Also DBOS and Absurd
https://github.com/dbos-inc/
https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd

I'm the author of QueenMQ, a C++ queue system backed by Postgres; we replaced Kafka with it in some of our B2B SaaS products.

Is also available as pg extension, that reproduce Kafka semantics directly from SQL. So you can use it without the server and the client, if needed.

I've put together a website based on the philosophy that "Postgres Is Enough": https://postgresisenough.dev

To submit extensions or tooling around Postgres, please submit A PR here: https://github.com/agoodway/postgresisenough

Hello,
The pgAssistant tool (in section Performance Tuning) moved to this repository https://github.com/beh74/pgassistant-community .
Hope the latest released will help.