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Nile Postgres
Company blog · thenile.dev/blog · on HN as infra_devdataprogrammingstartups
Nile Postgres is the company blog at thenile.dev, writing about data, programming and startups. Since 2022, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 105 times, most often “Nile – Serverless Postgres”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nile, a Postgres service for B2B and AI companies, as a way to give each tenant or customer an isolated database. Its blog posts on multi-tenant row-level security and UUIDv7 are also cited.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Postgres re-engineered for multi-tenant apps. Build secure, scalable and AI-native multi-tenant applications with world-class developer experience.
Most-linked posts?
- Nile – Serverless Postgres9 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2023-10-25
- Things Databases don't do – but should4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-07
- RAG architecture for SaaS – Learnings from building an AI code assistant2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-07-23
- I built a schema visualizer for PostgreSQL2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-12
- Pricing a database product for our customer's customer2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-09-19
- Everything a developer needs to know about Generative AI for SaaS2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
- Tenant virtualization in Postgres with five lines of code2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-09
- Nile – A Postgres platform to ship multi-tenant AI applications2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-20
- Serverless Sales Insights with Modal, Postgres and a Small Llama2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-23
- Debunking 6 common pgvector myths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-01
What Hacker News says?
It's been a while since I've looked at elastic pools in Azure, but maybe Neon ( https://neon.tech/ ) or recently Nile ( https://www.thenile.dev/ ) might work in terms of spinning up a bunch of separate logical DBs with shared compute/storage.
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on “PostgreSQL 17”Submitted Shipping Multi-Tenant SaaS Using Postgres Row-Level Security as a story · 254 points
HN discussionNile is a Serverless Postgres that virtualizes tenants/customers. It is specifically built for SaaS companies similar to Figma https://www.thenile.dev/ . I am the CEO of Nile.
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on “How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale”Submitted UUIDv7 Comes to PostgreSQL 18 as a story · 125 points
HN discussionBetter still, take a look at Nile's "tenant virtualization" concept: https://www.thenile.dev/
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on “PostgreSQL is enough”Submitted Nile, Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS as a story · 36 points
HN discussionYep. Nile ( https://www.thenile.dev/ ) is trying to address this use case with a fully isolated PG databases. Though, I don't know how they handle scaling/sharding.
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on “SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale”Submitted Pg_karnak: Transactional schema migration across tenant databases as a story · 29 points
HN discussionNot the answer you were looking for, but I had been shopping recently for slightly overlapping reasons (I want to ship projects, but they are all smaller MVPs that might run for a while and I didn't want to pay for 1 database service for each one on Render). I found https://www.thenile.dev/pricing which supports which apparently supports unlimited databases.
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on “How to use Postgres for everything”Submitted RAG architecture for SaaS – Learnings from building an AI code assistant as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThe blog explicitly said that if the requirements involve actual authorization models (beyond simple tenancy) then RLS is not the best fit (see: https://thenile.dev/blog/multi-tenant-rls#if-you-have-sophis... ). I think this covers both the complexity aspect and the difference between what you get from RLS and what external authz brings to the table (schema, for example). I do think that RLS is a great way for a com…
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on “Shipping Multi-Tenant SaaS Using Postgres Row-Level Security”Submitted UUIDv7 Comes to PostgreSQL 18 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionServerless in the context of Postgres means to decouple storage and compute, so you could scale compute "infinitely" without setting up replica servers. This is what Neon offers, where you can just keep hitting their endpoints with your pg client and it should just take whatever load (in principle) and bill you per request. Supabase gives you a server that runs classic Postgres in a process. Scaling in this scenario…
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on “Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B”Submitted Launching an Infrastructure SaaS Product, an Example Walkthrough as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI am the CEO of Nile. We are serverless Postgres built explicitly for modern SaaS workloads. We do provide true serverless with no cold start time. We are able to do this because we made Postgres tenant aware. We hope to share more details on how we do it soon. https://www.thenile.dev/
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on “AWS cancels serverless Postgres service that scales to zero”Submitted It is time for Postgres to care about customers as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGreat question. Nile supports shared tables for this purpose. Shared tables are regular tables that can be shared across all the tenants in another table. We have example use cases and how this works in Nile here https://www.thenile.dev/docs/tenant-sharing . Let me know if this works for you.
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on “Nile, Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS”Submitted Things Databases don't do – but should as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNile CEO here. There are many approaches to doing multitenancy. - You can create one physical DB per tenant - You can place multiple tenants on the same DB Both approaches have pros and cons. This is exactly what Nile is solving. We want users to not worry about all the operational complexity of picking a choice. You can choose any approach in Nile. In Nile, the tenant DB is a virtual concept. You can choose to plac…
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on “Nile, Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS”Submitted I built a schema visualizer for PostgreSQL as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNile CEO here. Yes, you can store embeddings per tenant and search for it. You can read more about vector embeddings and how we support it here https://www.thenile.dev/docs/ai-embeddings
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on “Nile, Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS”Submitted Nile – Introducing Postgres Schema Visualizer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7#why-uuidv7 has some details: " UUID versions that are not time ordered, such as UUIDv4 (described in Section 5.4), have poor database-index locality. This means that new values created in succession are not close to each other in the index; thus, they require inserts to be performed at random locations. The resulting negative performance effects on the common structures used for t…
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on “UUID package coming to Go standard library”Submitted Multitenant SaaS with Postgres and Prisma made easy as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHey! This is a common question. In our experience, most apps don't need cross-tenant queries outside of BI. For example, think about the apps you use on a daily basis: Linear, Slack, ChatGPT all fit well with an actor-per-workspace or actor-per-thread model. To be clear, we're not trying to replace Postgres. We're focused on modern workloads like AI, realtime, and SaaS apps where per-tenant & per-agent databases are…
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on “Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document”Submitted What Happens When You Drop a Column in Postgres as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI am the CEO of Nile, serverless Postgres for modern SaaS. We have built Postgres specifically for SaaS use cases. Take a look if it is interesting https://www.thenile.dev/
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on “Ask HN: Cost Effective Managed Postgres for Next.js App”Submitted Nile Postgres – User management is now available with unlimited users as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nile monthly launch – pg_vector is now available on Nile as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nile – A Postgres platform to ship multi-tenant AI applications as a story · 5 points
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