pg_branch
Experimental Postgres extension for quickly branching databases through file system snapshots (by NAlexPear)
database-lab-engine
DBLab enables 🖖 database branching and ⚡️ thin cloning for any Postgres database and empowers DB testing in CI/CD. This optimizes database-related costs while improving time-to-market and software quality. Follow to stay updated. (by postgres-ai)
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| 3 | 20 | |
| 316 | 2,108 | |
| - | 0.3% | |
| 6.2 | 8.7 | |
| about 1 year ago | 2 days ago | |
| Rust | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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pg_branch
Posts with mentions or reviews of pg_branch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-01.
database-lab-engine
Posts with mentions or reviews of database-lab-engine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-01.
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Pg_branch: Pre-alpha Postgres extension brings Neon-like branching
Underlying DBLab Engine is FOSS (Apache 2.0), with API, CLI and UI https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine
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Want to avoid MySQL but find PlanetScale really appealing
That said, there are a few folks out there attempting it. As mentioned, Neon attempts branching but has no "merge". Postgres.ai has "thin clones" for similar migration testing but again, no "merge".
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Neon – Serverless Postgres
Agreed, this direction is underestimated and should be developed better -- we (Postgres.ai) do it for any Postgres with our Database Lab Engine [1], and Neon would bring even more power if it's installed on production
[1] https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine
- Changing Tires at 100mph: A Guide to Zero Downtime Migrations
- Database Lab Engine 3.1 for PostgreSQL
- Database Lab Engine 3.1 released: native support for pgBackRest, timezones in CLI, more
- Database Lab Engine: Thin PostgreSQL Clones. DLE provides blazing-fast database cloning to build powerful development, test, QA, staging environments.
- Thin PostgreSQL clones
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pg_branch and database-lab-engine you can also consider the following projects:
pg-clone-schema - Postgres clone schema utility without need of going outside of database. Makes developers life easy by running single function to clone schema with all objects. It is very handy on Postgres RDS. Utility is sponsored by http://elephas.io/
neon - Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.