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We do this because we have found PostgreSQL to be a performant and reliable SQL ACID relational database.
Twitch on relying on PostgreSQL for OLTP workloads
blog.twitch.tv ↗·2016-10-11Wrong?
PlanetScale for Postgres uses real Postgres running on our proprietary operator meaning we can bring the maturity of PlanetScale and the performance of Metal to an even wider audience.
Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres
planetscale.com ↗·2025-07-01Wrong?
We already had lots of experience and expertise with Postgres and Apache Cassandra , so these would remain our data stores.
DoorDash keeping Postgres as a data store in the new stack
doordash.engineering ↗·2021-05-04Wrong?
Postgres is tremendously powerful and we saw no reason to move away from it, especially with horizontally-scaling options like Aurora available.
Instacart on staying with Postgres while scaling its fulfillment data
tech.instacart.com ↗·2018-08-14Wrong?
In the case of Postgres, by pushing the availability information and other data sources into the database and using a normalized data model, we were able to consolidate all the network calls and avoided the need to overfetch and filter the results.
How Instacart moved search from Elasticsearch to Postgres
tech.instacart.com ↗·2025-05-28Wrong?
In part 1 , you’ve read about the journey of moving from Mnesia to Postgres with zero downtime. In this blog post we will focus on database isolation levels and how we managed to make Postgres behave like Mnesia
Klarna's move of its KRED system from Mnesia to Postgres
engineering.klarna.com ↗·2025-03-12Wrong?
We don't want to introduce extra services to solve this single issue - Postgres is the logical way to achieve it.
Supabase uses Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN to cluster Elixir nodes
supabase.com ↗·2024-01-09Wrong?
As part of that effort, we decided to adopt AWS RDS PostgreSQL as our database of choice for relational workloads and AWS DynamoDB as our key-value store.
Coinbase adopting RDS PostgreSQL for relational workloads, from its internal ledger migration
coinbase.com ↗·2020-12-12Wrong?
Another great thing about Postgres is how mature it is: every question we wanted to ask had in most cases already been answered on Stack Overflow.
Why the Guardian moved its CMS content store from MongoDB to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
theguardian.com ↗·2018-11-30Wrong?
We spread these four million databases across about 3,000 PostgreSQL servers in 13 AWS regions worldwide, where our PostgreSQL servers are instances either of AWS RDS for PostgreSQL or AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, so we generally don't use the word 'server' and opt instead for 'instance'.
Jira's PostgreSQL fleet
atlassian.com ↗·2025-07-01Wrong?
The application is backed by several PostgreSQL and Redis clusters, Google Cloud Storage, Snuba and Clickhouse clusters, and a bunch of other services like Relay and Symbolicator that are associated with our processing pipeline.
Sentry describing what its monolith is backed by
sentry.engineering ↗·2023-11-15Wrong?
We use our own gitaly daemon written in Go to handle actual git operations, and PostgreSQL for non-repository persistence.
GitLab on PostgreSQL for persistence
about.gitlab.com ↗·2022-07-06Wrong?
We use Amazon’s RDS (Relational Database Service) to store our data in a PostgreSQL database.
A Guardian service storing data in PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
theguardian.com ↗·2019-12-02Wrong?
We use PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora as our relational databases, Elasticsearch as a document storage and indexing solution, AWS S3 for object storage, and InfluxDB as a time series database.
Robinhood's data stores ahead of building its data lake
robinhood.com ↗·2019-09-09Wrong?
By mid-2020, it was clear that product usage would surpass the abilities of our trusty Postgres monolith, which had served us dutifully through five years and four orders of magnitude of growth.
Notion on its Postgres monolith before sharding it
notion.com ↗·2021-10-06Wrong?
Postgres served us well in the early days of Uber, but we ran into significant problems scaling Postgres with our growth.
Why Uber Engineering switched from Postgres to MySQL
uber.com ↗·2016-07-26Wrong?
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