pg_auto_failover VS spilo

Compare pg_auto_failover vs spilo and see what are their differences.

pg_auto_failover

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

spilo

Highly available elephant herd: HA PostgreSQL cluster using Docker (by zalando)
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pg_auto_failover spilo
14 2
1,035 1,307
2.0% 3.4%
6.4 6.9
3 months ago 12 days ago
C Python
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.

spilo

Posts with mentions or reviews of spilo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-14.
  • Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2023
    one of the solutions which made it pretty simple for us to run postgresql in a ha environment (mostly in k8s, but works standalone as well) is zalandos patroni: https://github.com/zalando/patroni it's really solid and worked for us for a few years already.

    or for k8s their operator: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator (docker image: https://github.com/zalando/spilo) we've also tried other operators which were easier to get started, but they failed miserably (crunchyrolls operator is basically based on the zalando one)

  • Backup Postgresql Docker
    8 projects | /r/PostgreSQL | 16 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

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

postgres - Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres

citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

pgBackRest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

orchestrator - MySQL replication topology management and HA

wal-g - Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud

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

wal-e - Continuous Archiving for Postgres

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

netbox-docker - 🐳 Docker Image of NetBox

discussion

docker-postgres-wale - Postgres docker container with WALE-E installed