PgDog raises funding to build a horizontal scaling proxy for PostgreSQL
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Lev Kokotov
Summary
PgDog is building a proxy layer for PostgreSQL to solve its horizontal scaling limitations. The company argues that alternative databases like MongoDB and DynamoDB exist primarily because Postgres struggles with very large tables (100TB+) and high query volumes (1M QPS). Their solution, PgDog, acts as a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy that sits in front of Postgres, allowing developers to scale horizontally without changing their application code. The proxy can be deployed anywhere via Docker by simply changing the DATABASE_URL.
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· 3 pulledPostgres is the only database you need.
The reason DBs like Mongo or Dynamo exist is because Postgres has a scaling problem.
Same old Postgres, just with a proxy in front of it, to make it horizontally scalable.
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