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PgDog

PgDog is an application for sharding PostgreSQL. It understands SQL and can distribute queries automatically between databases. It's built for managed databases, like AWS RDS, and doesn't require any changes to application code or schema. In addition to sharding, PgDog is a load balancer and pooler, so it can act as a replacement for PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and other Postgres scaling products. It brings the simplicity and performance of HTTP load balancing to the database. Built from the experienc

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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PgDog is an application for sharding PostgreSQL. It understands SQL and can distribute queries automatically between databases. It's built for managed databases, like AWS RDS, and doesn't require any changes to application code or schema. In addition to sharding, PgDog is a load balancer and pooler, so it can act as a replacement for PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and other Postgres scaling products. It brings the simplicity and performance of HTTP load balancing to the database. Built from the experienc

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PgDog is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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PgBouncerRDS ProxySQLHTTP load balancingPgDogPostgreSQLshardingAWS RDS
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to PgDog

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Citus Data

match 57

The amount of time businesses spend on their databases is altogether too much time. Citus is fixing this problem. Citus is worry-free Postgres. Built to scale out, Citus is an extension to Postgres that is available as open source, as enterprise software that can be run on-prem or on any cloud, and as a fully-managed database as a service. Whether you have a multi-tenant application that needs to scale out, or you need performance for your real-time analytics customers, with Citus, you can focus

shared product terms: application, database, manag, any; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Scratch Data

match 53

ScratchDB is a platform that automates all aspects of managing an analytical database: server configuration, data ingestion, queries, replication, and sharding. We are built on top of Clickhouse with a developer experience that you'll love.

shared extracted concepts: sharding; shared product terms: shard, querie, database, manag; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

ParaQuery

match 49

ParaQuery is a fully-managed GPU-accelerated Spark solution providing double the performance at half the cost compared to solutions like Databricks and BigQuery. It is fully Spark-compatible, cloud agnostic, and has seamless integrations everywhere, all without vendor lock-in. ParaQuery makes it trivial to run large SQL and Spark workloads efficiently and serverlessly, without any data migrations.

shared product terms: manag, performance, like, sql; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

PopSQL

match 45

Every company wants to use data to make informed decisions, and SQL is the lingua franca for data. However, data collaboration is broken. People are rewriting each other's queries, switching apps to visualize their data, and copying/pasting SQL into Slack. PopSQL solves this by creating a beautiful, fun way to write SQL, visualize data, and share results. The product is loved by data teams from over 2000 companies including DoorDash, Shipt, Redfin, and Optimizely. What we've built so far is just

shared extracted concepts: sql; shared product terms: sql, querie, so, other; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Robodub

match 44

We are a drone company developing high performance drones that has better agility, maneuverability, safety, and load-balancing capacity.

shared extracted concept terms: load, balanc; shared product terms: load, performance, balanc

Bruin

match 44

Bruin is an online platform for data analysts that allows online data transformation with SQL and Python without any custom code.

shared extracted concepts: sql; shared product terms: sql, any, code; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools