# Multigres

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Multigres and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open-source Postgres sharding proxy that people are optimistic about; it is not production-ready, and critics say its sharding does not work yet.

## Why people recommend it

- Built in public, open source (2 comments): "making Vitess for Postgresql and making it open source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758857)) "Multigres is being built in public since day 1" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934075))
- Seen as promising Postgres fix (2 comments): "They're still not production-ready, but I'm highly optimistic they will solve a lot of the problems Postgres have." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485481)) "One of my favorite solutions so far" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433075))

## What people warn about

- Sharding features not yet working (3 comments): "Multiple live shards: no. Query routing across shards: no. Online shard splitting: no." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662396)) "to date there's no public evidence of a working sharding implementation in Multigres" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650397)) "they haven't been able to move forward w/ the project, it can't even shard yet" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662321))
- Doubts about project progress (2 comments): "they haven't been able to move forward w/ the project, it can't even shard yet" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662321)) "We can fully discount Multigres doing anything." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648104))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [PgDog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pgdog.md): 38 recommend
- [PgBouncer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pgbouncer.md): 37 recommend
- [Vitess](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vitess.md): 14 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Multigres", https://hackerapproved.com/p/multigres/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).