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Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022
Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)
- Render Managed PostgreSQL - Secure, reliable, and completely hands-off managed PostgreSQL. Encryption at rest, automated backups, and expandable SSD storage included in all plans. Plans start at $7 per month for 256MB RAM and 1GB storage (free for first 90 days).
Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2022
Contents / Backups
- wal-e (⭐3.4k) (obsolete) - Simple Continuous Archiving for PostgreSQL to S3, Azure, or Swift by Heroku.
Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2022
Resources / Articles
Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2021
Contents / Utilities
- pgMonitor (⭐373) - Postgres metrics collection and visualization that can be deployed to bare metal, virtual machines, or Kubernetes.
Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)
- Crunchy Bridge - Fully managed Postgres from the Postgres experts. Available across all major cloud providers: Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure. No lock-in with full super-user support.
Sep 27 - Oct 03, 2021
Contents / GUI
- Beekeeper Studio - Free and open source SQL client with a modern UI and great Postgres support. Cross platform.
Jul 12 - Jul 18, 2021
Contents / GUI
- Chartbrew - Create live dashboards, charts, and client reports from PostgreSQL data. Features a query tool that works with SQL.
Jun 28 - Jul 04, 2021
Contents / GUI
- DbGate - The Smartest (no)SQL Database Client
Feb 01 - Feb 07, 2021
Contents / GUI
- Count - Web-based analytics platform with a notebook interface which connects to PostgreSQL (Commercial Software).
Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2021
Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)
- Scaleway Managed Database - Fully managed PostgreSQL databases with HA, scaling, and automated backups, hosted in the EU. Starting at €10 per month.
Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2020
Resources / Tutorials
- PostgreSQL Primer for Busy People - A collection of the most common commands used in PostgreSQL
Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020
Contents / Monitoring
- dexter (⭐1.3k) - The automatic indexer for Postgres. Detects slow queries and creates indexes if configured to do so.
Nov 30 - Dec 06, 2020
Contents / Extensions
- pg_cron (⭐1.8k) - Run periodic jobs in PostgreSQL.
Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2020
Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)
- Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL - Fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer your PostgreSQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform.
Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2020
Contents / Extensions
- PGAudit - The PostgreSQL Audit Extension (or pgaudit) provides detailed session and/or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL.
Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2020
Contents / GUI
- DataRow - Cross-platform SQL Client for Amazon Redshift: Simple, Effortless, Extensible.
- OmniDB - Open Source Collaborative Environment For Database Management
- PostgresCompare - Cross-platform database comparison and deployment tool (Commercial Software).
Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2020
Contents / Language bindings
May 25 - May 31, 2020
Contents / High-Availability
- Slony-I - "Master to multiple slaves" replication system with cascading and failover.
Contents / Utilities
- pg_docs_bot (⭐16) - Browser extension to redirect PostgreSQL docs links to the current version.
- pg-differ (⭐34) - Tool for easy initialization / updating of the structure of PostgreSQL tables, migration alternative (Node.js).
Resources / Blogs
May 04 - May 10, 2020
Contents / Utilities
- ScaffoldHub.io - Generate fullstack PostgreSQL apps with Angular, Vue or React (Commercial Software).
Apr 27 - May 03, 2020
Contents / Backups
- wal-g (⭐2.4k) - The successor of WAL-E rewritten in Go. Currently supports cloud object storage services by AWS (S3), Google Cloud (GCS), Azure, as well as OpenStack Swift, MinIO, and file system storages. Supports block-level incremental backups, offloading backup tasks to a standby server, provides parallelization and throttling options. In addition to Postgres, WAL-G can be used for MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Contents / CLI
- pgsh (⭐496) - Branch your PostgreSQL Database like Git
- schemaspy (⭐2.3k) - SchemaSpy is a JAVA JDBC-compliant tool for generating your database to HTML documentation, including Entity Relationship diagrams
Contents / Monitoring
- PMM (⭐277) - Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a Free and Open Source platform for monitoring and managing PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
- pgmetrics - pgmetrics is an open-source, zero-dependency, single-binary tool that can collect a lot of information and statistics from a running PostgreSQL server and display it in easy-to-read text format or export it as JSON and CSV for scripting.
- okmeter.io - Commercial SaaS agent-based monitoring with a very detailed PostgreSQL plugin. It automatically gathers 100s of stats, displays dashboards on every aspect and sends alerts when something goes wrong (Commercial Software).
Contents / Extensions
- PipelineDB - A PostgreSQL extension that runs SQL queries continuously on streams, incrementally storing results in tables.
Contents / Optimization
- pg_flame (⭐1.5k) - A flamegraph generator for query plans.
- TimescaleDB Tune (⭐311) - a program for tuning a TimescaleDB database to perform its best based on the host's resources such as memory and number of CPUs.
Contents / Utilities
- Hasura GraphQL Engine (⭐28k) - Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
- pg_activity (⭐1.9k) - top like application for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring.
- PgBouncer - Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL.
- pgpool-II - Middleware that provides connection pooling, replication, load balancing and limiting exceeding connections.
Contents / Language bindings
- Go: pq (⭐7.7k), pgx (⭐6.2k)
- Ruby: pg (⭐630)
Resources / Articles
Resources / Videos
- Postgres Conference Youtube channel - Conference videos
Resources / Community
- Mailing lists - Official mailing lists for Postgres for support, outreach, and more. One of the primary channels of communication in the Postgres community.
- Reddit - A reddit community for PostgreSQL users with over 12000 users
- Slack - Slack channel for Postgres with over 7000 users
- Telegram - Several groups for PostgreSQL in different langauges: Russian >4200 people, Brazilian Portuguese >2300 people, Indonesian ~1000 people, English >750 people
- #postgresql on Freenode - The most popular IRC channel about Postgres on Freenode with over 1000 users
Nov 25 - Dec 01, 2019
Contents / Extensions
- PGroonga - PGroonga provides a new index access method that uses Groonga allowing super fast full text search feature against all languages.
Sep 09 - Sep 15, 2019
Contents / GUI
- TablePlus - Native App which let you edit database and structure. High-end security ensured (Commercial Software).
Contents / CLI
- nancy - The Nancy CLI is a unified way to manage automated database experiments either in clouds or on-premise
Contents / Optimization
- pgMustard - A modern user interface
for
EXPLAIN, that also provides performance tips (Commercial Software).
Contents / Utilities
- postgres-checkup - a new-generation diagnostics tool that allows users to collect deep analysis of the health of a Postgres database.
Resources / Videos
- Scaling Postgres - Postgres video blog series by Creston Jamison
Jul 01 - Jul 07, 2019
Contents / Utilities
- pg_insights (⭐279) - Convenient SQL for monitoring Postgres database health.
May 13 - May 19, 2019
Contents / Extensions
- Citus (⭐7.5k) - Scalable PostgreSQL cluster for real-time workloads.
Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019
Contents / Extensions
- TimescaleDB - Open-source time-series database fully compatible with Postgres, distributed as extension
Resources / Tutorials
- pg-utils (⭐665) - Useful DBA tools by Data Egret
Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2019
Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)
- Aiven PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL as a service in AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud and UpCloud; plans range from $19/month single node instances to large highly-available setups, free trial for two weeks.
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL - Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides fully managed, enterprise-ready community PostgreSQL database as a service. It provides builtin HA, elastic scaling and native integration with Azure ecosystem.
- Database Labs - Get a production-ready cloud PostgreSQL server in minutes, from $20 a month Backups, monitoring, patches, and 24/7 tech support all included.
- DigitalOcean Managed Databases - Fully managed PostgreSQL databases. No free plan. Starting at $15/mo. Daily backups with point-in-time recovery. Standby nodes with auto-failover.
- ElephantSQL - Offers databases ranging from shared servers for smaller projects and proof of concepts, up to enterprise grade multi server setups. Has free plan for up to 5 DBs, 20 MB each.
- Heroku Postgres - Plans from free to huge, operated by PostgreSQL experts. Does not require running your app on Heroku. Free plan includes 10,000 rows, 20 connections, up to two backups, and has PostGIS support.
Contents / Docker images
- citusdata/citus - Citus official images with citus extensions. Based on the official Postgres container.
- mdillon/postgis - PostGIS 2.3 on Postgres 9. Based on the official Postgres container.
- postgres - Official postgres container (from Docker)
Resources / Documentation
- Wiki - user documentation, how-tos, and tips 'n' tricks
Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2019
Contents / Extensions
- pgRouting (⭐955) - pgRouting extends the PostGIS/PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing and other network analysis functionality.
Contents / Language bindings
- Haskell: postgresql-simple
Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2019
Contents / Language bindings
- Clojure: clj-postgresql (⭐154)
Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019
Contents / Server
- AgensGraph - Powerful graph database based on the PostgreSQL.
Contents / Utilities
- PGXN client (⭐98) - Command line tool to interact with the PostgreSQL Extension Network
Dec 03 - Dec 09, 2018
Contents / High-Availability
- pglookout (⭐153) - Replication monitoring and failover daemon.
Contents / Backups
- Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL by 2ndQuadrant.
- pgBackRest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore.
- pghoard (⭐1.2k) - Backup and restore tool for cloud object stores (AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack Swift).
Contents / GUI
- DBeaver - Universal Database Manager with excellent support for PostgreSQL.
Contents / Distributions
- Postgres.app - The Easiest Way to Get Started with PostgreSQL on macOS.
Contents / Extensions
- pg_partman (⭐1.4k) - Partition management extension for PostgreSQL.
- pgTAP - Database testing framework for Postgres
Contents / Optimization
- PoWA - PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer gathers performance stats and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and tune your PostgreSQL servers.
Contents / Utilities
- PostgREST (⭐19k) - Serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database.
- sqitch (⭐2.5k) - Tool for managing versioned schema deployment
Contents / Language bindings
- Perl: DBD-Pg
Resources / Blogs
Resources / Videos
- Citus Data Youtube channel - Citus related videos
- EnterpriseDB Youtube channel - EnterpriseDB related videos
Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2018
Contents / GUI
- Numeracy - Fast SQL editor with charts and dashboards for PostgreSQL (Commercial Software).
Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018
Contents / GUI
- pgModeler - pgModeler is an open-source PostgreSQL Database Modeler.
Contents / Server
- Greenplum Database (⭐5.4k) - Open source fork of PostgreSQL for large data volumes.
Contents / Utilities
- pgbadger (⭐2.8k) - Fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer.
- sqlcheck (⭐2.2k) - Automatically detects common SQL anti-patterns. Such anti-patterns often slow down queries. Addressing them will, therefore, help accelerate queries.
Jul 23 - Jul 29, 2018
Contents / Backups
- pg_back (⭐261) - pg_back is a simple backup script
Contents / Utilities
- pg_chameleon (⭐320) - Real time replica from MySQL to PostgreSQL with optional type override migration and migration capabilities.
- pg_bulkload - It's a high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL.
Jul 02 - Jul 08, 2018
Contents / High-Availability
- PAF (⭐311) - PostgreSQL Automatic Failover: High-Availibility for Postgres, based on Pacemaker and Corosync.
Contents / Extensions
- HypoPG (⭐783) - HypoPG provides hypothetical/virtual indexes feature.
Mar 26 - Apr 01, 2018
Contents / Utilities
- PostGraphile (⭐12k) - Instant GraphQL API or GraphQL schema for your PostgreSQL database
Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018
Contents / Utilities
- ldap2pg (⭐149) - Synchronize roles and privileges from YML and LDAP.
Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018
Contents / Optimization
- pg_web_stats (⭐91) - Web UI to view pg_stat_statements.
Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2017
Contents / Monitoring
- pgwatch2 (⭐1.3k) - Flexible and easy to get started PostgreSQL metrics monitor focusing on Grafana dashboards.
Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2017
Contents / GUI
- Metabase - Simple dashboards, charts and query tool for PostgreSQL.
- Valentina Studio - Cross-platform database administration tool (Free/Commercial)
Contents / Monitoring
- opm.io - Open PostgreSQL Monitoring is a free software suite designed to help you manage your PostgreSQL servers. It can gather stats, display dashboards and send warnings when something goes wrong.
Contents / Utilities
- pREST (⭐3.4k) - Serve a RESTful API from any PostgreSQL database (Golang)
Contents / Language bindings
- Lua: luapgsql (⭐99)
Resources / Tutorials
- postgresDBSamples (⭐251) - A collection of sample postgres schemas
Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2017
Contents / Extensions
- pgMemento (⭐301) - Provides an audit trail for your data inside a PostgreSQL database using triggers and server-side functions written in PL/pgSQL.
Contents / Optimization
- pgtune (⭐1.5k) - Online version of PostgreSQL configuration wizard.
- pgconfig.org (⭐89) - PostgreSQL Online Configuration Tool (also based on pgtune).
Aug 28 - Sep 03, 2017
Contents / Server
- Postgres-XL - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based Database Cluster.
Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2017
Contents / GUI
- Holistics - Online cross platform database management tool and SQL query reporting GUI with strong PostgreSQL support (Commercial Software).
Contents / Distributions
- PostgreSql.Binaries.Lite (⭐27) - Minimum set of Windows binaries of the PostgreSQL database. Also made available through NuGet.
Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2017
Contents / Utilities
- pg-formatter (⭐61) - A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier (Node.js).
Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017
Contents / GUI
- temBoard (⭐303) - Web-based PostgreSQL GUI and monitoring.
Resources / Articles
Resources / Newsletters
- Postgres Weekly - Weekly newsletter that contains articles, news, and repos relevant to PostgreSQL.
Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2017
Contents / Language bindings
- .Net/.Net Core: Npgsql (⭐2.7k)
Apr 03 - Apr 09, 2017
Contents / Utilities
- pg_migrate (⭐26) - Manage PostgreSQL codebases and make VCS simple.
Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2017
Contents / Monitoring
- Instrumental (⭐14) - Real-time performance monitoring, including pre-made graphs for ease of setup (Commercial Software)
Feb 27 - Mar 05, 2017
Contents / Backups
- pg_probackup (⭐519) – A fork of pg_arman, improved by @PostgresPro, supports incremental backups, backups from replica, multithreaded backup and restore, and anonymous backup without archive command.
Contents / Extensions
- cyanaudit - Cyan Audit provides in-database logging of all DML activity on a column-by-column basis.
- pgxn PostgreSQL Extension Network - central distribution point for many open-source PostgreSQL extensions
- PG_Themis (⭐29) - Postgres binding as extension for crypto library Themis, providing various security services on PgSQL's side.
Contents / Utilities
- apgdiff - Compares two database dump files and creates output with DDL statements that can be used to update old database schema to new one.
- ZSON (⭐465) - PostgreSQL extension for transparent JSONB compression
Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2017
Contents / High-Availability
- SkyTools (⭐249) - Replication tools, including PgQ, a queuing system, and Londiste, a replication system a bit simpler to manage than Slony.
Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2017
Contents / Monitoring
- pgbench - Run a benchmark test on PostgreSQL.
Nov 28 - Dec 04, 2016
Resources / Blogs
- Planet PostgreSQL - Blog aggregation service for PostgreSQL.
Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2016
Contents / Utilities
- pglistend (⭐26) - A lightweight PostgresSQL
LISTEN/NOTIFYdaemon built on top ofnode-postgres.
Nov 07 - Nov 13, 2016
Contents / High-Availability
- Patroni (⭐5k) - Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper or etcd.
- Stolon (⭐3.9k) - PostgreSQL HA based on Consul or etcd, with Kubernetes integration.
- repmgr (⭐1.3k) - Open-source tool suite to manage replication and failover in a cluster of PostgreSQL servers.
Contents / Backups
- OmniPITR (⭐170) - Advanced WAL File Management Tools for PostgreSQL.
Contents / GUI
- Adminer - Full-featured database management tool written in PHP.
- DataGrip - IDE with advanced tool sets and good cross-platform experience (Commercial Software).
- Datazenit - Web-based PostgreSQL GUI (Commercial Software).
- JackDB - Web-based SQL query interface (Commercial Software).
- pgAdmin - PostgreSQL Administration and Management GUI.
- pgweb (⭐7.5k) - Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go.
- phpPgAdmin (⭐651) - The Premier Web Based Administration Tool for PostgreSQL.
- Postbird (⭐1.3k) - PostgreSQL Client for macOS.
- Postico - Modern PostgreSQL Client for macOS (Commercial Software).
- PSequel - Clean and simple interface to perform common PostgreSQL tasks quickly (Commercial Software).
- SQL Tabs - Cross Platform Desktop Client for PostgreSQL written in JS.
- SQLPro for Postgres - Simple, powerful PostgreSQL manager for macOS (Commercial Software).
Contents / Monitoring
- check_pgactivity (⭐155) - check_pgactivity is designed to monitor PostgreSQL clusters from Nagios. It offers many options to measure and monitor useful performance metrics.
- Check_postgres (⭐498) - Nagios check_postgres plugin for checking status of PostgreSQL databases.
- libzbxpgsql (⭐151) - Comprehensive PostgreSQL monitoring module for Zabbix.
- Pome (⭐1.1k) - Pome stands for PostgreSQL Metrics. Pome is a PostgreSQL Metrics Dashboard to keep track of the health of your database.
- pg_view (⭐466) - Open-source command-line tool that shows global system stats, per-partition information, memory stats and other information.
Contents / Extensions
- cstore_fdw (⭐1.7k) - Columnar store for analytics with PostgreSQL.
- pglogical (⭐656) - Extension that provides logical streaming replication.
- pg_paxos (⭐294) - Basic implementation of Paxos and Paxos-based table replication for a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes.
- pg_shard (⭐1.1k) - Extension to scale out real-time reads and writes.
- PGStrom - Extension to offload CPU intensive workloads to GPU.
- plpgsql_check (⭐429) - Extension that allows to check plpgsql source code.
- PostGIS - Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL.
- zomboDB (⭐4.1k) - Extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch.
Contents / Optimization
- PgHero (⭐6.7k) - PostgreSQL insights made easy.
- pgtune (⭐992) - PostgreSQL configuration wizard.
Contents / Utilities
- ERAlchemy (⭐968) - ERAlchemy generates Entity Relation (ER) diagram from databases.
- mysql-postgresql-converter (⭐1.2k) - Lanyrd's MySQL to PostgreSQL conversion script.
- ora2pg - Perl module to export an Oracle database schema to a PostgreSQL compatible schema.
- pganalyze - PostgreSQL Performance Monitoring (Commercial Software).
- pgCenter (⭐1.4k) - Provides convenient interface to various statistics, management task, reloading services, viewing log files and canceling or terminating database backends.
- pgclimb (⭐375) - Export data from PostgreSQL into different data formats.
- pgfutter (⭐1.3k) - Import CSV and JSON into PostgreSQL the easy way.
- PGInsight - CLI tool to easily dig deep inside your PostgreSQL database.
- pgloader (⭐4.2k) - Loads data into PostgreSQL using the COPY streaming protocol, and does so with separate threads for reading and writing data.
- pgsync (⭐2.5k) - Tool to sync PostgreSQL data to your local machine.
- postgresql-metrics (⭐564) - Tool that extracts and provides metrics for your PostgreSQL database.
- yoke (⭐1.4k) - PostgreSQL high-availability cluster with auto-failover and automated cluster recovery.
Resources / Tutorials
- Backup and recover a PostgreSQL DB using wal-e - Tutorial about setting up continuous archiving in PostgreSQL using wal-e.
- PG Casts - Free weekly PostgreSQL screencasts by Hashrocket.
- Postgres Guide - Guide designed as an aid for beginners and experienced users to find specific tips and explore tools available within PostgreSQL.
- PostgreSQL Exercises - Site to make it easy to learn PostgreSQL by doing exercises.
- tutorialspoint PostgreSQL tutorial - Very extensive collection of tutorials on PostgreSQL
Resources / Blogs
- Craig Kerstiens PostgreSQL posts - Set of posts on PostgreSQL cool features, tips and tricks.
- Database Soup - Josh Berkus' blog.
- select * from depesz; - Hubert Lubaczewski's blog.
Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2016
Contents / High-Availability
- BDR (⭐349) - BiDirectional Replication - a multimaster replication system for PostgreSQL
Contents / CLI
- psql - The built-in PostgreSQL CLI client
Contents / Utilities
- pgcmp (⭐36) - Tool to compare database schemas, with capability to accept some persistent differences
Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2016
Contents / GUI
- dbglass - Cross-platform desktop client for PostgreSQL, built with Electron.
Contents / Utilities
- pgmigrate (⭐534) - CLI tool to evolve schema migrations, developed by Yandex.
Oct 03 - Oct 09, 2016
Resources / Articles
Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2016
Contents / Backups
- pitrery - pitrery is a set of Bash scripts to manage Point In Time Recovery (PITR) backups for PostgreSQL.
Sep 05 - Sep 11, 2016
Contents / Language bindings
- Common Lisp: Postmodern (⭐332)
- Elixir: postgrex (⭐961)
- Rust: rust-postgresql (⭐2.7k)
Jul 18 - Jul 24, 2016
Resources / Articles
Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2016
Contents / Language bindings
- PHP: Pomm, pecl/pq (⭐34)
Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2016
Contents / Language bindings
- Java: PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2015
Contents / CLI
- psql2csv (⭐171) - Run a query in psql and output the result as CSV
Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2015
Contents / CLI
- pgcli (⭐11k) - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting