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A curated list of awesome PostgreSQL software, libraries, tools and resources, inspired by awesome-mysql

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Contents / High-Availability

  • BDR

    BiDirectional Replication - a multimaster replication system for PostgreSQL

  • Patroni

    Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper or etcd

  • Stolon

    PostgreSQL HA based on Consul or etcd, with Kubernetes integration

  • pglookout

    Replication monitoring and failover daemon

  • repmgr

    Open-source tool suite to manage replication and failover in a cluster of PostgreSQL servers

  • Slony-I

    "Master to multiple slaves" replication system with cascading and failover

  • PAF

    PostgreSQL Automatic Failover: High-Availibility for Postgres, based on Pacemaker and Corosync

  • SkyTools

    Replication tools, including PgQ, a queuing system, and Londiste, a replication system a bit simpler to manage than Slony

Contents / Backups

  • Barman

    Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL by 2ndQuadrant

  • OmniPITR

    Advanced WAL File Management Tools for PostgreSQL

  • pg_probackup

    – A fork of pg_arman, improved by @PostgresPro, supports incremental backups, backups from replica, multithreaded backup and restore, and anonymous backup without archive command

  • pgBackRest

    Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

  • pg_back

    pg_back is a simple backup script

  • pghoard

    Backup and restore tool for cloud object stores (AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack Swift)

  • wal-e

    (obsolete) - Simple Continuous Archiving for PostgreSQL to S3, Azure, or Swift by Heroku

  • wal-g

    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

  • pitrery

    pitrery is a set of Bash scripts to manage Point In Time Recovery (PITR) backups for PostgreSQL

Contents / GUI

  • Adminer

    Full-featured database management tool written in PHP

  • Beekeeper Studio

    Free and open source SQL client with a modern UI and great Postgres support. Cross platform

  • Chartbrew

    Create live dashboards, charts, and client reports from PostgreSQL data. Features a query tool that works with SQL

  • Count

    Web-based analytics platform with a notebook interface which connects to PostgreSQL (Commercial Software)

  • DataGrip

    IDE with advanced tool sets and good cross-platform experience (Commercial Software)

  • Datazenit

    Web-based PostgreSQL GUI (Commercial Software)

  • DataRow

    Cross-platform SQL Client for Amazon Redshift: Simple, Effortless, Extensible

  • DBeaver

    Universal Database Manager with excellent support for PostgreSQL

  • dbglass

    Cross-platform desktop client for PostgreSQL, built with Electron

  • Holistics

    Online cross platform database management tool and SQL query reporting GUI with strong PostgreSQL support (Commercial Software)

  • JackDB

    Web-based SQL query interface (Commercial Software)

  • Metabase

    Simple dashboards, charts and query tool for PostgreSQL

  • Numeracy

    Fast SQL editor with charts and dashboards for PostgreSQL (Commercial Software)

  • OmniDB

    Open Source Collaborative Environment For Database Management

  • pgAdmin

    PostgreSQL Administration and Management GUI

  • pgModeler

    pgModeler is an open-source PostgreSQL Database Modeler

  • pgweb

    Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go

  • phpPgAdmin

    The Premier Web Based Administration Tool for PostgreSQL

  • Postbird

    PostgreSQL Client for macOS

  • PostgresCompare

    Cross-platform database comparison and deployment tool (Commercial Software)

  • 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)

  • temBoard

    Web-based PostgreSQL GUI and monitoring

  • TablePlus

    Native App which let you edit database and structure. High-end security ensured (Commercial Software)

  • Valentina Studio

    Cross-platform database administration tool (Free/Commercial)

  • DbGate

    The Smartest (no)SQL Database Client

Contents / Distributions

  • Postgres.app

    The Easiest Way to Get Started with PostgreSQL on macOS

  • PostgreSql.Binaries.Lite

    Minimum set of Windows binaries of the PostgreSQL database. Also made available through NuGet

Contents / CLI

  • atlas

    Atlas is a tool for managing and migrating database schemas using modern DevOps principles

  • pgcli

    Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

  • pgsh

    Branch your PostgreSQL Database like Git

  • psql

    The built-in PostgreSQL CLI client

  • psql2csv

    Run a query in psql and output the result as CSV

  • nancy

    The Nancy CLI is a unified way to manage automated database experiments either in clouds or on-premise

  • schemaspy

    SchemaSpy is a JAVA JDBC-compliant tool for generating your database to HTML documentation, including Entity Relationship diagrams

Contents / Server

  • Postgres-XL

    Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based Database Cluster

  • AgensGraph

    Powerful graph database based on the PostgreSQL

  • Greenplum Database

    Open source fork of PostgreSQL for large data volumes

  • YugabyteDB

    Open Source Distributed SQL using a fork of PostgreSQL on top of distributed storage and transaction

Contents / Monitoring

  • check_pgactivity

    check_pgactivity is designed to monitor PostgreSQL clusters from Nagios. It offers many options to measure and monitor useful performance metrics

  • Check_postgres

    Nagios check_postgres plugin for checking status of PostgreSQL databases

  • Instrumental

    Real-time performance monitoring, including for ease of setup (Commercial Software)

  • libzbxpgsql

    Comprehensive PostgreSQL monitoring module for Zabbix

  • PMM

    Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a Free and Open Source platform for monitoring and managing PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB

  • Pome

    Pome stands for PostgreSQL Metrics. Pome is a PostgreSQL Metrics Dashboard to keep track of the health of your database

  • 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

  • pg_view

    Open-source command-line tool that shows global system stats, per-partition information, memory stats and other information

  • pgwatch2

    Flexible and easy to get started PostgreSQL metrics monitor focusing on Grafana dashboards

  • pgbench

    Run a benchmark test on PostgreSQL

  • 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

  • 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)

  • dexter

    The automatic indexer for Postgres. Detects slow queries and creates indexes if configured to do so

Contents / Extensions

  • Citus

    Scalable PostgreSQL cluster for real-time workloads

  • cstore_fdw

    Columnar store for analytics with PostgreSQL

  • cyanaudit

    Cyan Audit provides in-database logging of all DML activity on a column-by-column basis

  • pg_analytics

    pg_analytics is an extension that accelerates analytical query processing inside Postgres to a performance level comparable to dedicated OLAP databases

  • pg_lakehouse

    pg_lakehouse is an extension that transforms Postgres into an analytical query engine over object stores like AWS S3/GCS and table formats like Delta Lake/Iceberg

  • pg_search

    pg_search is a PostgreSQL extension that enables full-text search over SQL tables using the BM25 algorithm, the state-of-the-art ranking function for full-text search

  • pg_cron

    Run periodic jobs in PostgreSQL

  • pglogical

    Extension that provides logical streaming replication

  • pg_partman

    Partition management extension for PostgreSQL

  • pg_paxos

    Basic implementation of Paxos and Paxos-based table replication for a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes

  • pg_shard

    Extension to scale out real-time reads and writes

  • PGStrom

    Extension to offload CPU intensive workloads to GPU

  • pgxn

    PostgreSQL Extension Network - central distribution point for many open-source PostgreSQL extensions

  • PipelineDB

    A PostgreSQL extension that runs SQL queries continuously on streams, incrementally storing results in tables

  • plpgsql_check

    Extension that allows to check plpgsql source code

  • PostGIS

    Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL

  • PG_Themis

    Postgres binding as extension for crypto library Themis, providing various security services on PgSQL's side

  • zomboDB

    Extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch

  • pgMemento

    Provides an audit trail for your data inside a PostgreSQL database using triggers and server-side functions written in PL/pgSQL

  • TimescaleDB

    Open-source time-series database fully compatible with Postgres, distributed as extension

  • pgTAP

    Database testing framework for Postgres

  • HypoPG

    HypoPG provides hypothetical/virtual indexes feature

  • pgRouting

    pgRouting extends the PostGIS/PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing and other network analysis functionality

  • PGroonga

    PGroonga provides a new index access method that uses Groonga allowing super fast full text search feature against all languages

  • PGAudit

    The PostgreSQL Audit Extension (or pgaudit) provides detailed session and/or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL

  • PostgresML

    Machine learning and AI inside your database, including vectors, LLMs, and classic ML. Train, predict and manage the entire lifecycle of machine learning models using only SQL

Contents / Optimization

  • pg_flame

    A flamegraph generator for query plans

  • PgHero

    PostgreSQL insights made easy

  • pgMustard

    A modern user interface for , that also provides performance tips (Commercial Software)

  • pgtune

    PostgreSQL configuration wizard

  • pgtune

    Online version of PostgreSQL configuration wizard

  • pgconfig.org

    PostgreSQL Online Configuration Tool (also based on pgtune)

  • PoWA

    PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer gathers performance stats and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and tune your PostgreSQL servers

  • pg_web_stats

    Web UI to view pg_stat_statements

  • TimescaleDB Tune

    a program for tuning a TimescaleDB database to perform its best based on the host's resources such as memory and number of CPUs

  • Metis

    Metis provides observability and performance tuning for SQL databases including PostgreSQL. (Commercial Software)

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

  • ERAlchemy

    ERAlchemy generates Entity Relation (ER) diagram from databases

  • Hasura GraphQL Engine

    Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events

  • ldap2pg

    Synchronize roles and privileges from YML and LDAP

  • mysql-postgresql-converter

    Lanyrd's MySQL to PostgreSQL conversion script

  • ora2pg

    Perl module to export an Oracle database schema to a PostgreSQL compatible schema

  • pg_activity

    top like application for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring

  • pg-formatter

    A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier (Node.js)

  • pganalyze

    PostgreSQL Performance Monitoring (Commercial Software)

  • pgbadger

    Fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer

  • PgBouncer

    Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL

  • pgCenter

    Provides convenient interface to various statistics, management task, reloading services, viewing log files and canceling or terminating database backends

  • pg_chameleon

    Real time replica from MySQL to PostgreSQL with optional type override migration and migration capabilities

  • pgclimb

    Export data from PostgreSQL into different data formats

  • pg_docs_bot

    Browser extension to redirect PostgreSQL docs links to the current version

  • pgfutter

    Import CSV and JSON into PostgreSQL the easy way

  • PGInsight

    CLI tool to easily dig deep inside your PostgreSQL database

  • pg_insights

    Convenient SQL for monitoring Postgres database health

  • pgloader

    Loads data into PostgreSQL using the COPY streaming protocol, and does so with separate threads for reading and writing data

  • pgMonitor

    Postgres metrics collection and visualization that can be deployed to bare metal, virtual machines, or Kubernetes

  • pgpool-II

    Middleware that provides connection pooling, replication, load balancing and limiting exceeding connections

  • pgspot

    Spot vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL extension scripts

  • pgsync

    Tool to sync PostgreSQL data to your local machine

  • PGXN client

    Command line tool to interact with the PostgreSQL Extension Network

  • postgresql-metrics

    Tool that extracts and provides metrics for your PostgreSQL database

  • PostgREST

    Serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database

  • pREST

    Serve a RESTful API from any PostgreSQL database (Golang)

  • PostGraphile

    Instant GraphQL API or GraphQL schema for your PostgreSQL database

  • yoke

    PostgreSQL high-availability cluster with auto-failover and automated cluster recovery

  • pglistend

    A lightweight PostgresSQL / daemon built on top of

  • ZSON

    PostgreSQL extension for transparent JSONB compression

  • pg_bulkload

    It's a high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL

  • pg_migrate

    Manage PostgreSQL codebases and make VCS simple

  • sqitch

    Tool for managing versioned schema deployment

  • pgmigrate

    CLI tool to evolve schema migrations, developed by Yandex

  • pgcmp

    Tool to compare database schemas, with capability to accept some persistent differences

  • pg-differ

    Tool for easy initialization / updating of the structure of PostgreSQL tables, migration alternative (Node.js)

  • sqlcheck

    Automatically detects common SQL anti-patterns. Such anti-patterns often slow down queries. Addressing them will, therefore, help accelerate queries

  • postgres-checkup

    a new-generation diagnostics tool that allows users to collect deep analysis of the health of a Postgres database

  • ScaffoldHub.io

    Generate fullstack PostgreSQL apps with Angular, Vue or React (Commercial Software)

Contents / Language bindings

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Scaleway Managed Database

    Fully managed PostgreSQL databases with HA, scaling, and automated backups, hosted in the EU. Starting at €10 per month

  • Supabase

    Fully managed Postgres with read replicas, point-in-time-recovery, support packages, browser based GUI, and a generous free tier

  • Neon

    Fully managed serverless PostgreSQL. Neon separates storage and compute to offer modern developer features such as serverless, branching, bottomless storage, and more

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

  • paradedb/paradedb

    ParadeDB is Postgres for Search and Analytics. Based on the Bitnami Postgres container with pg_search and pg_analytics Postgres extensions

  • postgres

    Official postgres container (from Docker)

Resources / Tutorials

Resources / Blogs

Resources / Articles

Resources / Books

Resources / Documentation

  • Wiki

    user documentation, how-tos, and tips 'n' tricks

  • pgPedia

    An encyclopedia of things related to postgreSQL

Resources / Newsletters

  • Postgres Weekly

    Weekly newsletter that contains articles, news, and repos relevant to PostgreSQL

Resources / 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

  • Russian

    Telegram - Several groups for PostgreSQL in different languages: >4200 people, >2300 people, ~1000 people, >750 people

  • #postgresql on Freenode

    The most popular IRC channel about Postgres on Freenode with over 1000 users

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