Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions

PgDog is a transaction pooler and logical replication manager that can shard PostgreSQL. Written in Rust, PgDog is fast, secure and can manage hundreds of databases and hundreds of thousands of connections. Documentation 📘 PgDog documentation can be found here. Any questions? Join our Discord. Quick start Kubernetes Helm chart is here. To install it, run: git clone https://github.com/pgdogdev/helm && \ cd helm && \ helm install -f values.yaml pgdog ./ Docker You can try PgDog quickly using Docker. Install Docker Compose and run: docker-compose up It will take a few minutes to build PgDog from source and launch the containers. Once started, you can connect to PgDog with psql (or any other PostgreSQL client): PGPASSWORD=postgres psql -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6432 -U postgres The demo comes with 3 shards and 2 sharded tables: INSERT INTO users (id, email) VALUES ( 1 , ' [email protected] ' ); INSERT INTO payments (id, user_id, amount) VALUES ( 1 , 1 , 100 . 0 ); SELECT * FROM users WHERE ... Read full article.