PgDog Raises $5M Seed Funding for PostgreSQL Scaling Solution
Original: PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Why This Matters
Addresses critical PostgreSQL scaling limitations that drive adoption of NoSQL databases
PgDog announced $5M seed funding led by Basis Set, YC, and Pioneer Fund to develop horizontal scaling technology for PostgreSQL. The startup serves 2M+ queries/second in production and has 1.4M Docker pulls.
PgDog, a three-person startup, secured $5M in seed funding to develop horizontal scaling solutions for PostgreSQL databases. The company's open-source proxy technology enables PostgreSQL to handle 100TB+ tables and 1M queries per second. Founded by former Instacart infrastructure engineer Lev Kokotov, who scaled Postgres during the company's 5x growth in April 2020, PgDog currently serves over 2 million queries per second across dozens of production deployments and has sharded over 20TB of data. The solution can be deployed on-premises, in cloud accounts, or anywhere Docker runs. PgDog has achieved 1.4M Docker pulls and releases weekly updates every Thursday. The funding from Basis Set, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund and other investors will support development of an Enterprise edition with AWS integration and SLA-backed support.