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PgDog

Spring 2025 ยท Active

Scaling engine for PostgreSQL

Founded: 2025

Team size: 1

About

PgDog is an application for sharding PostgreSQL. It understands SQL and can distribute queries automatically between databases. It's built for managed databases, like AWS RDS, and doesn't require any changes to application code or schema. In addition to sharding, PgDog is a load balancer and pooler, so it can act as a replacement for PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and other Postgres scaling products. It brings the simplicity and performance of HTTP load balancing to the database. Built from the experience of sharding Postgres at Instacart during peak growth in 2020, PgDog is the answer to the old question: does Postgres scale? It does now.

Founders

  • Lev KokotovFounder

    Second time technical founder, sharded Postgres at Instacart in 2020 during peak growth. Previously built PostgresML (AI + PostgreSQL = ๐Ÿš€).