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Blog on is the company blog at ongres.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Benchmarking, Do it with transparency or don't do it at all”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link OnGres's blog for its replies in the PostgreSQL versus MongoDB benchmark dispute and for posts on the PostgreSQL trademark actions. The comments discuss the posts' subject matter more than their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We like open source, we develop open source software, and we are very active and well known at Postgres community. We also develop custom products for clients, always around Postgres environment
Most-linked posts?
- Benchmarking, Do it with transparency or don't do it at all3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-25
- /about-us/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-13
- Why Postgres Extensions should be packaged and distributed as OCI images2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-02
- PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE may be lying to you2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-26
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a similar post some weeks ago, going to similar deepths to script launching a VM with Firecracker. My main goal then was to provide the necessary automation to help using cloud images for the VMs, so you can easily leverage a wide array of existing images. Most of the credit is due to cloud-init, which helps automate instance configuration after boot. "Automation to run VMs based on vanilla Cloud Images on F…
Comment linking /blog/automation-to-run-vms-based-on-vanilla-cloud-images-on-firecracker/
on “Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second”Submitted Show HN: Postgresqlco.nf: PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans as a story · 223 points
HN discussionYes I'm a bit confused about their motivations too. Sharing what I've pieced together so far (and trying to approach this from a good-faith perspective): My understanding so far is that they run a Postgres consulting firm [1], and it appears they took the liberty of registering a Postgres trademark for the class of "professional services" in order to (I presume) protect fair use by their firm and (they claim in thei…
Comment linking /about-us/
on “Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community”Submitted Why Postgres Extensions should be packaged and distributed as OCI images as a story · 27 points
HN discussionÁlvaro Hernández here apparently runs a PostgreSQL consulting firm [1] and controls "Fundación PostgreSQL." Would Fundación PostgreSQL have the power to grant exclusive use of the trademark to the consulting firm? [1] https://ongres.com/about-us/#team
Comment linking /about-us/
on “Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community”Submitted JOINs the hard way: comparing MongoDB and Postgres as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAs of today, it is more of a Reference than a Guide. This is intended. Further enhancements of the website will include functionality to fully help less and more experienced users to fine tune PostgreSQL configurations. Read more from a recent announcement https://www.ongres.com/blog/postgresqlconf-configuration-for... Any feedback is very welcome! P.S. postgresqlCO.NF responsible here
Comment linking /blog/postgresqlconf-configuration-for-humans/
on “Postgresqlco.nf: a PostgreSQL configuration guide”Submitted Beyond jsonb: a generalized, unstructured data type for Postgres as a story · 17 points
HN discussionIf you want some easy-to-hack --but very hackish-- shell scripts, you may find this interesting: https://ongres.com/blog/automation-to-run-vms-based-on-vanil...
Comment linking /blog/automation-to-run-vms-based-on-vanilla-cloud-images-on-firecracker/
on “Firecracker MicroVMs”Submitted Benchmarking, Do it with transparency or don't do it at all as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis is fantastic news. I already blogged about it when it was announced on December last year [0]. Adding SQL Server compatibility opens Postgres to new users, use cases, markets. It makes one of the most general-purpose databases to reach even more "purposes". I hope work and discussions to integrate this upstream will start soon and will be fruitful. It won't be easy, but I believe it would be definitely worth th…
Comment linking /blog/aws_announces_open_source_postgres_with_sql_server_compatibility/
on “Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres”Submitted Having Lunch with PostgreSQL, MongoDB and JSON as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm the founder of OnGres [1] the company behind StackGres [2]. I'd love to hear your feedback if you'd be interested in also trying StackGres. It's one of the most feature-full operators available, has a complete Web Console and REST API and supports close to 200 extensions. Hope it would be interesting for you. [1]: https://ongres.com [2]: https://stackgres.io
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on “Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes”Submitted Free 1GB Postgres Database on AWS CloudShell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFrankly I have no intention to write an update to the article. Anyone who, after reading that list of issues and seeing the repeated sketchy behaviour of MongoDB (the company), still doesn't recognize the deep-seated issues behind how MongoDB is being developed and marketed, isn't going to be convinced by an updated list of grievances either. It'd be a waste of my time and energy. But if you insist on evidence that…
Comment linking /blog/benchmarking-do-it-with-transparency/
on “ApostropheCMS – An Open-Source Node.js CMS for the Enterprise”Submitted Universal Relation Data Modelling Considered Harmful as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHi HN, I’m Alvaro Hernandez, Founder of OnGres (OnGres == “ON postGRES”) [01]. I started using Postgres before the year 2,000 --and never looked back. Postgres reliability, feature set, its incredible documentation, Community, and access to source code always fulfilled all mine and my customer’s needs. Postgres is trivial to install: $ apt-get install postgresql # will get Postgres installed on your laptop. But woul…
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on “Show HN: StackGres: open-source Postgres-aaS on Kubernetes with 120 Extensions”Submitted Benchmarking: Do it with transparency or don't do it at all as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy understanding so far is that OP runs a Postgres consulting firm [1], and it appears they took the liberty of registering a Postgres trademark for the class of "professional services" in order to (I presume) protect fair use by their firm and (they claim) others in the Postgres community. Some of this is admittedly speculation on my part, and I'm trying to take a charitable view of their actions to try to understa…
Comment linking /about-us/
on “Postgres Core Team launches unprecedented attack against the Postgres Community”Submitted Automation to run VMs based on vanilla Cloud Images on Firecracker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs others are pointing out here, Mongodb's reply is definitely questionable, if only by its tone. In any case, I was writing this to note that OnGres has replied to Mongo's reply setting an example of how tech discussions should happen: without derogatory and arrogant comments, open to valid criticism (i.e. with something more than words and numbers that cannot be reproduced) and transparency. Check it out: https://…
Comment linking /blog/benchmarking-do-it-with-transparency/
on “Benchmarking: Do it right or don't do it at all”Submitted Why Postgres Extensions should be packaged and distributed as OCI images as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs others have pointed out in another HN discussion (1), Mongodb's reply is definitely questionable, if only by its tone. I already replied to metheus on Twitter (2) in a thread where we asked for a way to repro their claims. I found their reply and comments very inappropriate, similar to the comment in here. Arrogant and derogatory to OnGres. Anyway, I was writing this to note that OnGres has replied to Mongo's rep…
Comment linking /blog/benchmarking-do-it-with-transparency/
on “MongoDB Responds to PostgreSQL Benchmarks”Submitted Toast and its influences on parallelism in PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's not the same, but reminded me of this post [1] I wrote some time ago, about a 63-nodes EKS cluster running on VMs with Firecracker on a single instance. [1]: https://www.ongres.com/blog/63-node-eks-cluster-running-on-a...
Comment linking /blog/63-node-eks-cluster-running-on-a-single-instance-with-firecracker/
on “Proxmox Docker Containers Monster – 13000 containers on a single host”Submitted 63-Node EKS Cluster Running on a Single Instance with Firecracker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automation to run VMs based on vanilla Cloud Images on Firecracker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS announces Babelfish: open-source Postgres with SQL Server compatibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE may be lying to you as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE may be lying to you as a story · 1 points
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