pg_auto_failover VS orchestrator

Compare pg_auto_failover vs orchestrator and see what are their differences.

pg_auto_failover

Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability (by hapostgres)
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pg_auto_failover orchestrator
14 3
1,035 5,485
2.0% 1.2%
6.4 0.0
3 months ago 7 days ago
C Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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pg_auto_failover

Posts with mentions or reviews of pg_auto_failover. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

orchestrator

Posts with mentions or reviews of orchestrator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-29.
  • MariaDB Cluster Management
    1 project | /r/mariadb | 24 Aug 2021
    https://github.com/openark/orchestrator might be something for you. I dont know if it works with Mariadb, but it is made for regular old MySQL.
  • Vitess 11
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2021
  • MYSQL Operator: A MYSQL ❤ affair with Kubernetes
    3 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2021
    The whole infrastructure runs on top of Kubernetes, along with **Github Orchestrator** which is an open-source tools that provides a pretty intuitive UI, also we have the MYSQL Operator which does the actual heavy lifting & provisions various MySQL Nodes & Services, what’s even greater is that each MYSQL Instances has mysqld-exporter service running which can be used for monitoring.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pg_auto_failover and orchestrator you can also consider the following projects:

patroni - A template for PostgreSQL High Availability with Etcd, Consul, ZooKeeper, or Kubernetes

mysql-operator - Asynchronous MySQL Replication on Kubernetes using Percona Server and Openark's Orchestrator.

citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

postgresql_cluster - PostgreSQL High-Availability Cluster (based on "Patroni" and DCS "etcd" or "consul"). Automating with Ansible.

binlog - mysql binlog replication protocol in golang

plv8 - V8 Engine Javascript Procedural Language add-on for PostgreSQL

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

discussion

tds_fdw - A PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper to connect to TDS databases (Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server)

thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.