Speaker:

Sugu Sougoumarane

Date:

Mon Apr 13, 2026 @ 04:30pm EDT

Date:

Mon Apr 13, 2026

Time:

04:30pm EDT

Location:

https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99830697483?pwd=RLKiHNDLPvOyoCMHSBGmWfbba4ZAb4.1Zoom

Title:

Multigres: Bringing Horizontal Scaling and Enterprise Operations to PostgreSQL

System:

Multigres

Video:

YouTube

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Talk Info:

Multigres is an adaptation of Vitess for PostgreSQL that enables horizontal scaling and enterprise-grade operational capabilities for Postgres deployments. The system employs a layered proxy architecture with MultiGateway for query routing and MultiPooler for connection pooling, allowing organizations to manage large distributed database clusters while maintaining PostgreSQL compatibility. Key features include modeless connection pooling that works as if you're directly connected to Postgres, a High Availability system that honors all the rules of consensus protocols, and an architecture that supports a relational sharding model that intelligently co-locates related data and pushes entire joins into single shards. This talk will provide an overview of Multigres's architecture and dive deep into how these features enable teams to operate PostgreSQL at scale with minimal operational overhead.

This talk is part of the PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series.

Bio:

Sugu is the head of Multigres at Supabase. He's also the co-creator of Vitess, a sharding solution for MySQL.

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