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Multigres
Company blog · multigres.com/blogdataprogramming
Multigres is the company blog at multigres.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2025, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Multigres: Horizontally scalable multi-tenant Postgres architecture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to Multigres, a project to bring Vitess-style sharding and high availability to Postgres, and link its blog posts on consensus algorithms, Paxos, and TLA+ testing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A horizontally scalable Postgres architecture supporting multi-tenant, highly available, and globally distributed deployments.
Most-linked posts?
- Multigres: Horizontally scalable multi-tenant Postgres architecture7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-08-12
- Generalized Consensus: An Alternate Approach to Distributed Durability4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-22
- Multigres Supports Listen/Notify Across Pooled Connections2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-08
- Multigres Architecture Overview2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-25
- TLA+ Caught a Silent Data Divergence Bug in Postgres's pg_rewind2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-08
What Hacker News says?
> Side node: The guy that wrote Vitess for Mysql, is also working on multigress ( https://multigres.com/ ), a solution that does the same. Aka Vitess for postgres. And also was the founder of planetscale
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on “PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA”Submitted High Availability and Postgres full-sync replication as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPlanetscale used to run postgres on AWS with network attached storage. So every time the DB hits the disks > it goes over the network. Need to read 4kb > network, another 4kb > network. So your latency is instead of microsecond on local storage, its miliseconds. Where a local NVME can do ... 100k 4k reads, over the network storage it does maybe 1k (just a example). The problem is, there are not a lot of solutions to…
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on “PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA”Submitted Generalized Consensus: Consistent Reads as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYour probably better off with the original flavor (the guy that made Vitesse) https://multigres.com/ He is making a open source version of porting Vitesse to Postgres.
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on “Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess”Submitted Multigres: Horizontally scalable multi-tenant Postgres architecture as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat about Multigres[0]? It builds on top of Postgres and adds HA (based on Flexible Paxos[1]), sharding, etc. They're still not production-ready, but I'm highly optimistic they will solve a lot of the problems Postgres have. For example, with Multigres, you should be able to achieve true zero downtime major version upgrade by simply resharding [2]. With vanilla Postgres + pgBouncer, you can only achieve near-zero d…
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on “PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you”Submitted Multigres Architecture Overview as a story · 4 points
HN discussionthis is the last of a 9-part series on database consensus algorithms (like Paxos and Raft): > Raft improved accessibility but remains a monolithic algorithm that's risky to modify. This has effectively limited our flexibility in adapting consensus systems to modern cloud architectures. The series begins here: https://multigres.com/blog/generalized-consensus
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on “Generalized Consensus: Consistent Reads”Submitted Multigres Supports Listen/Notify Across Pooled Connections as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm surprised no one has mentioned Multigres yet, they are the competitor of Neki. I'm a big fan of both and has been following them since they were announced last year. I think this blog post is the first time they are talking about the internals of Neki. In contrast, Multigres is being built in public since day 1, you can see their high-level architecture here [1], though I'm still waiting for more details on thei…
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on “Making 768 servers look like 1”Submitted A 2.5x faster Postgres parser with Claude Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAFAIK that's what Multigres[0] and Neki[1] are trying to solve. [0] https://multigres.com/ [1] https://neki.dev/
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on “Does Postgres Scale?”Submitted Generalized Consensus: An Alternate Approach to Distributed Durability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI already read the article in your website: https://planetscale.com/blog/the-history-of-postgres-shardin... , which I found very interesting. One of my favorite solutions so far is https://multigres.com/ !
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on “The History of Postgres Sharding”Submitted Multigres: Horizontally scalable Postgres with multi-tenant, HA capabilities as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> It's infamously hard to exhaustively unit-test concurrency. a useful example from last week where TLA+ found a bug in pg_rewind: https://multigres.com/blog/2026/05/04/tla-pg-rewind
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on “Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?”Submitted Why Multigres has its own connection pooler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooked it up, says 'Will be released as an open source project' but announcement was in July 2025 and no public repo yet which is strange, so time will tell if they will stick to this. https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres#vitess... https://planetscale.com/neki ... Supabase one is open from start: https://github.com/multigres/multigres https://multigres.com/
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on “Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler”Submitted TLA+ Caught a Silent Data Divergence Bug in Postgres's pg_rewind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: Discovery and Propagation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: Alternate Approach to Distributed Durability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: Defining the Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: An Alternate Approach to Distributed Durability (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multigres Supports Listen/Notify Across Pooled Connections as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: Revocation and Candidacy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: Ordering Decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: Fulfilling Requests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized Consensus: Governing Rules as a story · 1 points
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