Multigres
Ranked 4 of 4 database proxies by recommenders
Open-source Postgres sharding proxy that people are optimistic about; it is not production-ready, and critics say its sharding does not work yet.
Open-source Postgres sharding proxy that people are optimistic about; it is not production-ready, and critics say its sharding does not work yet.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Built in public, open source
“making Vitess for Postgresql and making it open source”
Comment from 2 Jul 2026 in “Database Traffic Control” “Multigres is being built in public since day 1”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Making 768 servers look like 1” Seen as promising Postgres fix
“They're still not production-ready, but I'm highly optimistic they will solve a lot of the problems Postgres have.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you” “One of my favorite solutions so far”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “The History of Postgres Sharding”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Sharding features not yet working
“Multiple live shards: no. Query routing across shards: no. Online shard splitting: no.”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “118M Queries per Second on Neki” “to date there's no public evidence of a working sharding implementation in Multigres”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Neki – Sharded Postgres” “they haven't been able to move forward w/ the project, it can't even shard yet”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “118M Queries per Second on Neki” Doubts about project progress
“they haven't been able to move forward w/ the project, it can't even shard yet”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “118M Queries per Second on Neki” “We can fully discount Multigres doing anything.”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Neki – Sharded Postgres”
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See all 4 database proxies, rankedWhat people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Multiple live shards: no. Query routing across shards: no. Online shard splitting: no.”
“they haven't been able to move forward w/ the project, it can't even shard yet”
“to date there's no public evidence of a working sharding implementation in Multigres”
“We can fully discount Multigres doing anything.”
“One of my favorite solutions so far”
“Multigres is being built in public since day 1”
“making Vitess for Postgresql and making it open source”
“With proxies like pgdog, multigres, and eventually Neki”
“They're still not production-ready, but I'm highly optimistic they will solve a lot of the problems Postgres have.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.