pg_auto_failover VS pgcluster

Compare pg_auto_failover vs pgcluster and see what are their differences.

pg_auto_failover

Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability (by hapostgres)

pgcluster

Docker swarm cluster of postgres databases with streaming replication, pgpool and repmgr (by saule1508)
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pg_auto_failover pgcluster
14 1
1,035 55
2.0% -
6.4 10.0
3 months ago over 1 year ago
C JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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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.

pgcluster

Posts with mentions or reviews of pgcluster. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

pgcat - PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support.

citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

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

orchestrator - MySQL replication topology management and HA

rubyrep - Open-source solution for asynchronous, master-master replication of relational databases

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

discussion

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

vitess - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

amazon-redshift-utils - Amazon Redshift Utils contains utilities, scripts and view which are useful in a Redshift environment