PgDog
PgDog is a YC Spring 2025 (P25) company. Based in Remote. Team of 1.
About PgDog
Summary
PgDog builds a horizontal scaling layer for PostgreSQL that handles sharding, connection pooling, and load balancing in a single executable. It sits between an application and managed Postgres databases like AWS RDS, routing and distributing queries automatically across shards without requiring changes to application code or schema. It replaces tools like PgBouncer and RDS Proxy while adding distributed query execution that those tools do not provide.
Business model
Omitted; sources do not specify pricing structure.
Go-to-market
Engineering teams at companies running PostgreSQL at scale adopt PgDog through a self-serve path, with an open-source release on GitHub and a separate enterprise offering requiring direct contact.
From the Y Combinator listing
Scaling engine for PostgreSQL
PgDog is an application for sharding PostgreSQL. It understands SQL and can distribute queries automatically between databases. It's built for managed databases, like AWS RDS, and doesn't require any changes to application code or schema. In addition to sharding, PgDog is a load balancer and pooler, so it can act as a replacement for PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and other Postgres scaling products. It brings the simplicity and performance of HTTP load balancing to the database. Built from the experience of sharding Postgres at Instacart during peak growth in 2020, PgDog is the answer to the old question: does Postgres scale? It does now.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Infrastructure
- Remote
- 1
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
- Lev Kokotov
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