About on PIGSTY

Features

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“PostgreSQL In Great STYle”: Postgres, Infras, Graphics, Service, Toolbox, it’s all Yours.

—— Battery-Included, Local-First PostgreSQL Distribution as an Open-Source RDS Alternative

Values

Extensibility: Powerful Extensions Ready for use: PostGIS, TimescaleDB, Citus, PGVector, Search, HTAP, AIML, and 255 more.
Reliability: Create self-healing High Available PostgreSQL clusters with pre-configured PITR, built-in ACL, CA & SSL in minutes.
Observability: Monitoring best practices build upon the modern Prometheus & Grafana stack: Check our live Demo & Gallery.
Availability: Deliver auto-routed, high-performance, and flexible database Services Access with haproxy, pgbouncer, and VIP.
Maintainability: Easy to use, Infra as Code API, Admin SOP, auto-tuned, local yum/apt repo, Vagrant sandbox, Terraform spec.
Composability: Modular design, Flexible Arch, bonus features: Redis, MinIO, ETCD, FerretDB, DuckDB, Supabase, Docker Apps.

Overview

Battery-Included RDS: Delivers production-ready PostgreSQL services from version 12-16 on Linux x86, spanning kernel to RDS distribution.
Plentiful Extensions: Integrates 255 extensions, providing turnkey capabilities for time-series, geospatial, full-text-search, vector and more!
Flexible Architecture: Compose Redis/Etcd/MinIO/Mongo modules on nodes, monitoring existing cluster and remote RDS, self-hosting Supabase.
Stunning Observability: Leveraging the Prometheus/Grafana modern observability stack, and provides unmatched database insights.
Proven Reliability: Self-healing HA architecture with automatic failover and uninterrupted client access, and pre-configured PITR.
Great Maintainability: Declarative API, GitOps ready, foolproof design, Database/Infra-as-Code, and management SOP seals complexity!
Sound Security: Nothing needs to be worried about database security, as long as your hardware & credentials are safe.
Versatile Application: Lots of applications work well with PostgreSQL. Run them in one command with docker.
Open Source & Free: Pigsty is a free & open source software under AGPLv3. It was built for PostgreSQL with love.

Pigsty is built-upon industry best practices:

Modules

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Core Modules

Pigsty offers four CORE modules, which are essential for providing PostgreSQL service:

PGSQL : An autonomous, highly available PostgreSQL cluster powered by Patroni, Pgbouncer, HAproxy, PgBackrest, and others.
INFRA : Local software repository, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, AlertManager, PushGateway, Blackbox Exporter, etc.
NODE : Adjusts the node to the desired state, name, time zone, NTP, ssh, sudo, haproxy, docker, promtail, keepalived.
ETCD : Distributed key-value store, serving as the DCS (Distributed Consensus System) for the highly available Postgres cluster: consensus leadership election, configuration management, service discovery.

Extended Modules

Pigsty offers four OPTIONAL modules,which are not necessary for the core functionality but can enhance the capabilities of PostgreSQL:

Roadmap

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New Features on the Radar

Maintaining Deb packages for Pigsty extensions
ARM architecture support for infrastructure components
Adding more extensions to PostgreSQL
A command-line tool that’s actually good
More pre-configured scenario-based templates
Migrating package repositories and download sources entirely to Cloudflare
Deploying and monitoring high-availability Kubernetes clusters with SealOS!
Support for PostgreSQL 17 alpha
Loki and Promtail seem a bit off; could VictoriaLogs and Vector step up?
Swapping Prometheus storage for VictoriaMetrics to handle time-series data
Monitoring deployments of MySQL databases
Monitoring databases within Kubernetes
Offering a richer variety of Docker application templates

Here’s our Issues and Roadmap

History

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Origin Story

The Pigsty project kicked off between 2018 and 2019, originating from Tantan, a dating app akin to China’s Tinder, now acquired by Momo. Tantan, a startup with a Nordic vibe, was founded by a team of Swedish engineers. Renowned for their tech sophistication, they chose PostgreSQL and Go as their core tech stack. Tantan’s architecture, inspired by Instagram, revolves around PostgreSQL. They managed to scale to millions of daily active users, millions of TPS, and hundreds of TBs of data using PostgreSQL exclusively. Almost all business logic was implemented using PG stored procedures, including recommendation algorithms with 100ms latency!

Event & News

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Latest Event

PGCon.Dev 2024
Pigsty v2.7 Released!
- PostgreSQL Website: Pigsty v2.7 Released, free RDS PG with 255 extensions available
- Postgres Weekly: [https://postgresweekly.com/issues/556)
- Pigsty Blog: Pigsty v2.7: Extension Overwhelming
Pigsty v2.6 Released!
- PostgreSQL Website: Pigsty, Battery-included PostgreSQL Distro & Free RDS Alternative, v2.6 released!
- Planet Postgres (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PostgreSQL/status/1765323952669290515
- Postgres Weekly: https://postgresweekly.com/issues/545
- Pigsty Blog: Pigsty v2.6：the new OLAP challenger – PostgreSQL

The name of this project always makes me grin: PIGSTY is actually an acronym, standing for Postgres In Great STYle! It’s a Postgres distribution that includes lots of components and tools out of the box in areas like availability, deployment, and observability. The latest release pushes everything up to Postgres 16.2 standards and introduces new ParadeDB and DuckDB FDW extensions.

Community

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The Pigsty community already offers free WeChat/Discord/Telegram Q&A Office Hours, and we are also happy to provide more free value-added services to our supporters.

GitHub

Our GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Vonng/pigsty , welcome to watch and star us.

Everyone is very welcome to submit new Issue or create Pull Request, propose feature suggestions and participate in Pigsty contribution.

Beware that for Pigsty documentation issues, please submit Issue in the github.com/Vonng/pigsty.cc repository.

License

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Pigsty is open sourced under the AGPLv3 license, which is a copyleft license.

Summary

Pigsty use the AGPLv3 license, which is a strong copyleft license that requires you to also distribute the source code of your derivative works under the same license. If you distribute Pigsty, you must make the source code available under the same license, and you must make it clear that the source code is available.

Sponsorship

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Investor

Pigsty is funded by MiraclePlus (formal YC China), S22 Batch.

Thanks to MiraclePlus and Dr.Qi’s support.

Sponsorship

Pigsty is a free & open-source software nurtured by the passion of PostgreSQL community members.

If our work has helped you, please consider sponsoring or supporting our project. Every penny counts, and advertisements are also a form of support:

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Privacy Policy

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Pigsty Software

When you install the Pigsty software, if you use offline packages in a network-isolated environment, we will not receive any data about you.

If you choose to install online, then when downloading relevant software packages, our server or the servers of our cloud providers will automatically log the visiting machine’s IP address and/or hostname, as well as the name of the software package you downloaded, in the logs.

Service

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Pigsty is a battery-included use PostgreSQL database distribution, a local-first alternative to RDS/cloud database services, allowing users to run a fully-featured local RDS service at a hardware cost of just a few core months. The software itself is completely open-source and free. If it has helped you, please consider sponsoring us.

Although Pigsty is designed to replace manual database operations with database autopilot software, even the best software can only solve some problems. There will always be some infrequent issues and various problems not limited to technology that require expert intervention. Therefore, we also offer professional service subscriptions.