pgbouncer VS pgcat

Compare pgbouncer vs pgcat and see what are their differences.

pgbouncer

lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL (by pgbouncer)

pgcat

PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support. (by postgresml)
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pgbouncer pgcat
34 3
2,648 2,528
3.8% 4.1%
8.7 8.3
3 days ago 9 days ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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pgbouncer

Posts with mentions or reviews of pgbouncer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.

pgcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of pgcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pgbouncer and pgcat you can also consider the following projects:

odyssey - Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler

asyncpg - A fast PostgreSQL Database Client Library for Python/asyncio.

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

pgcat - PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support. [Moved to: https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat]

supavisor - A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler.

TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.

mssql-changefeed

rds-auth-proxy - A "passwordless" login experience for your AWS RDS

cloudpilot-emu - A PalmOS emulator for the web

citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension