awesome-postgres
A curated list of awesome PostgreSQL software, libraries, tools and resources, inspired by awesome-mysql
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Awesome Postgres / Contents / High-Availability | |||
BDR | 360 | over 4 years ago | BiDirectional Replication - a multimaster replication system for PostgreSQL |
Patroni | 6,684 | 10 days ago | Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper or etcd |
Stolon | 4,641 | 3 months ago | PostgreSQL HA based on Consul or etcd, with Kubernetes integration |
pglookout | 183 | 12 days ago | Replication monitoring and failover daemon |
repmgr | 1,547 | about 1 month ago | 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 | 340 | 4 months ago | PostgreSQL Automatic Failover: High-Availibility for Postgres, based on Pacemaker and Corosync |
SkyTools | 248 | over 7 years ago | Replication tools, including PgQ, a queuing system, and Londiste, a replication system a bit simpler to manage than Slony |
Awesome Postgres / Contents / Backups | |||
Barman | Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL by 2ndQuadrant | ||
OmniPITR | 177 | over 5 years ago | Advanced WAL File Management Tools for PostgreSQL |
pg_probackup | 709 | about 1 month ago | – 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 | 522 | about 1 month ago | pg_back is a simple backup script |
pghoard | 1,310 | 21 days ago | Backup and restore tool for cloud object stores (AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack Swift) |
wal-e | 3,453 | 10 months ago | (obsolete) - Simple Continuous Archiving for PostgreSQL to S3, Azure, or Swift by Heroku |
wal-g | 3,255 | 4 days ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Postgres / 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 | 8,580 | 22 days ago | Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go |
phpPgAdmin | 803 | 2 months ago | The Premier Web Based Administration Tool for PostgreSQL |
Postbird | 1,538 | over 1 year ago | 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 | 452 | about 1 month ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Postgres / 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 | ||
Awesome Postgres / Contents / CLI | |||
atlas | 5,765 | 9 days ago | Atlas is a tool for managing and migrating database schemas using modern DevOps principles |
pgcli | 12,038 | 3 months ago | Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting |
pgsh | 567 | almost 2 years ago | Branch your PostgreSQL Database like Git |
psql | The built-in PostgreSQL CLI client | ||
psql2csv | 183 | over 2 years ago | 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 | 3,183 | about 2 months ago | SchemaSpy is a JAVA JDBC-compliant tool for generating your database to HTML documentation, including Entity Relationship diagrams |
Awesome Postgres / 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 | ||
Awesome Postgres / Contents / Monitoring | |||
check_pgactivity | 175 | about 1 month ago | check_pgactivity is designed to monitor PostgreSQL clusters from Nagios. It offers many options to measure and monitor useful performance metrics |
Check_postgres | 557 | 6 months ago | Nagios check_postgres plugin for checking status of PostgreSQL databases |
Instrumental | 14 | about 6 years ago | Real-time performance monitoring, including for ease of setup (Commercial Software) |
libzbxpgsql | 157 | 11 months ago | Comprehensive PostgreSQL monitoring module for Zabbix |
PMM | 628 | 4 days ago | Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a Free and Open Source platform for monitoring and managing PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB |
Pome | 1,091 | about 4 years ago | 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 | 494 | over 1 year ago | Open-source command-line tool that shows global system stats, per-partition information, memory stats and other information |
pgwatch2 | 1,808 | 5 days ago | 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 | 1,865 | 3 months ago | The automatic indexer for Postgres. Detects slow queries and creates indexes if configured to do so |
Awesome Postgres / Contents / Extensions | |||
Citus | 10,457 | 6 days ago | Scalable PostgreSQL cluster for real-time workloads |
cstore_fdw | 1,759 | over 3 years ago | 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 | 5,922 | 10 days ago | pg_analytics is an extension that accelerates analytical query processing inside Postgres to a performance level comparable to dedicated OLAP databases |
pg_lakehouse | 5,922 | 10 days ago | 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 | 5,922 | 10 days ago | 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 | 2,826 | about 2 months ago | Run periodic jobs in PostgreSQL |
pglogical | 993 | 19 days ago | Extension that provides logical streaming replication |
pg_partman | 2,062 | 29 days ago | Partition management extension for PostgreSQL |
pg_paxos | 306 | about 2 years ago | Basic implementation of Paxos and Paxos-based table replication for a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes |
pg_shard | 1,058 | about 8 years ago | 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 | 634 | 4 days ago | Extension that allows to check plpgsql source code |
PostGIS | Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL | ||
PG_Themis | 30 | almost 8 years ago | Postgres binding as extension for crypto library Themis, providing various security services on PgSQL's side |
zomboDB | 4,682 | 3 months ago | Extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch |
pgMemento | 381 | about 1 year ago | 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 | 1,365 | 8 days ago | HypoPG provides hypothetical/virtual indexes feature |
pgRouting | 1,151 | 11 days ago | 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 | ||
Awesome Postgres / Contents / Optimization | |||
pg_flame | 1,569 | over 4 years ago | A flamegraph generator for query plans |
PgHero | 8,055 | 16 days ago | PostgreSQL insights made easy |
pgMustard | A modern user interface for , that also provides performance tips (Commercial Software) | ||
pgtune | 1,045 | about 3 years ago | PostgreSQL configuration wizard |
pgtune | 2,169 | 15 days ago | Online version of PostgreSQL configuration wizard |
pgconfig.org | 90 | about 4 years ago | 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 | 95 | almost 6 years ago | Web UI to view pg_stat_statements |
TimescaleDB Tune | 441 | 15 days ago | 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) | ||
Awesome Postgres / 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 | 1,118 | 24 days ago | ERAlchemy generates Entity Relation (ER) diagram from databases |
Hasura GraphQL Engine | 31,093 | 11 days ago | Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events |
ldap2pg | 207 | 5 days ago | Synchronize roles and privileges from YML and LDAP |
mysql-postgresql-converter | 1,284 | about 2 years ago | Lanyrd's MySQL to PostgreSQL conversion script |
ora2pg | Perl module to export an Oracle database schema to a PostgreSQL compatible schema | ||
pg_activity | 2,463 | 4 days ago | top like application for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring |
pg-formatter | 80 | 7 months ago | A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier (Node.js) |
pganalyze | PostgreSQL Performance Monitoring (Commercial Software) | ||
pgbadger | 3,525 | 3 months ago | Fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer |
PgBouncer | Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL | ||
pgCenter | 1,545 | 5 months ago | Provides convenient interface to various statistics, management task, reloading services, viewing log files and canceling or terminating database backends |
pg_chameleon | 378 | 4 months ago | Real time replica from MySQL to PostgreSQL with optional type override migration and migration capabilities |
pgclimb | 389 | over 4 years ago | Export data from PostgreSQL into different data formats |
pg_docs_bot | 16 | 3 months ago | Browser extension to redirect PostgreSQL docs links to the current version |
pgfutter | 1,327 | about 4 years ago | Import CSV and JSON into PostgreSQL the easy way |
PGInsight | CLI tool to easily dig deep inside your PostgreSQL database | ||
pg_insights | 300 | almost 5 years ago | Convenient SQL for monitoring Postgres database health |
pgloader | 5,355 | 24 days ago | Loads data into PostgreSQL using the COPY streaming protocol, and does so with separate threads for reading and writing data |
pgMonitor | 571 | 8 days ago | 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 | 54 | 11 days ago | Spot vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL extension scripts |
pgsync | 3,130 | 16 days ago | Tool to sync PostgreSQL data to your local machine |
PGXN client | 139 | 4 months ago | Command line tool to interact with the PostgreSQL Extension Network |
postgresql-metrics | 589 | over 1 year ago | Tool that extracts and provides metrics for your PostgreSQL database |
PostgREST | 23,287 | 9 days ago | Serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database |
pREST | 4,204 | about 1 month ago | Serve a RESTful API from any PostgreSQL database (Golang) |
PostGraphile | 12,581 | 5 days ago | Instant GraphQL API or GraphQL schema for your PostgreSQL database |
yoke | 1,343 | almost 9 years ago | PostgreSQL high-availability cluster with auto-failover and automated cluster recovery |
pglistend | 28 | over 7 years ago | A lightweight PostgresSQL / daemon built on top of |
ZSON | 539 | over 1 year ago | PostgreSQL extension for transparent JSONB compression |
pg_bulkload | It's a high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL | ||
pg_migrate | 31 | about 7 years ago | Manage PostgreSQL codebases and make VCS simple |
sqitch | 2,765 | 4 months ago | Tool for managing versioned schema deployment |
pgmigrate | 627 | 21 days ago | CLI tool to evolve schema migrations, developed by Yandex |
pgcmp | 42 | 5 months ago | Tool to compare database schemas, with capability to accept some persistent differences |
pg-differ | 36 | over 3 years ago | Tool for easy initialization / updating of the structure of PostgreSQL tables, migration alternative (Node.js) |
sqlcheck | 2,430 | 8 months ago | 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) | ||
Awesome Postgres / Contents / Language bindings | |||
Postmodern | 397 | 2 months ago | Common Lisp: |
clj-postgresql | 160 | over 2 years ago | Clojure: |
postgrex | 1,106 | about 2 months ago | Elixir: |
pq | 9,037 | 2 months ago | Go: , |
postgresql-simple | Haskell: | ||
PostgreSQL JDBC Driver | Java: | ||
Npgsql | 3,282 | 11 days ago | .Net/.Net Core: |
node-postgres | 12,215 | 11 days ago | Node: , , , , |
DBD-Pg | Perl: | ||
Pomm | PHP: , | ||
psycopg2 | Python: , | ||
RPostgreSQL | 64 | 9 months ago | R: |
pg | 788 | 22 days ago | Ruby: |
rust-postgresql | 3,456 | 27 days ago | Rust: , |
luapgsql | 112 | almost 2 years ago | Lua: |
Awesome Postgres / 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 | ||
Awesome Postgres / 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) | ||
Awesome Postgres / 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 | ||
postgresDBSamples | 474 | about 1 year ago | A collection of sample postgres schemas |
PostgreSQL Primer for Busy People | A collection of the most common commands used in PostgreSQL | ||
pg-utils | 1,023 | about 2 months ago | Useful DBA tools by Data Egret |
Awesome Postgres / Resources / Blogs | |||
Planet PostgreSQL | Blog aggregation service for PostgreSQL | ||
Andrew Dunstan's PostgreSQL and Technical blog | |||
Bruce Momjian's PostgreSQL blog | |||
Craig Kerstiens PostgreSQL posts | Set of posts on PostgreSQL cool features, tips and tricks | ||
Database Soup | Josh Berkus' blog | ||
Michael Paquier's blog | |||
Robert Haas' blog | |||
select * from depesz; | Hubert Lubaczewski's blog | ||
Metis Blog | Set of posts on PostgreSQL, SQL databases, performance, and tuning | ||
Awesome Postgres / Resources / Articles | |||
What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part I | |||
What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II | |||
the ultimate postgres vs mysql blog post | |||
Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way | |||
Why use Postgres? | |||
Superfast CSV imports using PostgreSQL's COPY command | |||
Tricking Postgres into using an insane – but 200x faster – query plan | |||
Awesome Postgres / Resources / Books | |||
PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them | |||
Awesome Postgres / Resources / Documentation | |||
Wiki | user documentation, how-tos, and tips 'n' tricks | ||
pgPedia | An encyclopedia of things related to postgreSQL | ||
Awesome Postgres / Resources / Newsletters | |||
Postgres Weekly | Weekly newsletter that contains articles, news, and repos relevant to PostgreSQL | ||
Awesome Postgres / Resources / Videos | |||
Citus Data Youtube channel | Citus related videos | ||
EnterpriseDB Youtube channel | EnterpriseDB related videos | ||
Postgres Conference Youtube channel | Conference videos | ||
Scaling Postgres | Postgres video blog series by Creston Jamison | ||
Awesome Postgres / 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 | ||
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 | ||
Awesome Postgres / Resources / Roadmaps | |||
PostgreSQL Roadmap | A roadmap providing step wise guide to PostgreSQL |