Amazon RDS vs PgDoorman
Amazon RDS
aws.amazon.comPgDoorman
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| Figure | Amazon RDS | PgDoorman |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Spec score · Database Proxy Software | 8.9 (#3) | 7.5 (#18) |
| High availability | Multi-AZ deployments synchronously replicate data and automatically fail over to a standby instance. | Patroni-assisted fallback can direct new backend connections to another live cluster member when the local PostgreSQL server disappears during a switchover. |
| What it does | Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that sets up, operates and scales databases in AWS while handling common administration. | PgDoorman is a multithreaded PostgreSQL connection pooler written in Rust and described as a drop-in replacement for PgBouncer and Odyssey. |
Plans
Amazon RDS
- AWS Free TierFree
- AWS Free Tier for RDSFree
- On-demandPrice not published
- On-Demand InstancesPrice not published
- Reserved InstancePrice not published
- Reserved InstancesPrice not published
In their own words
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
PgDoorman
PgDoorman is a free, open-source, self-hosted PostgreSQL connection pooler written in Rust. It is described as a drop-in replacement for PgBouncer and Odyssey, and supports PostgreSQL 10 and newer on Linux or macOS. Listed capabilities include connection pooling, load balancing, and automatic failover; query routing is not supported. The pool coordinator enforces per-database connection caps and can reclaim idle capacity from pools with spare connections. Patroni-assisted fallback can direct new connections to another live cluster member during a switchover. Monitoring includes a Prometheus endpoint and an optional local diagnostic console for pool, latency, error, query, log, CPU, and memory information. Authentication includes MD5 or SCRAM passthrough, auth_query, PAM, JWT, Talos JWT, and pg_hba.conf rules. TLS is supported for client and backend connections. It can be built from source, installed from packages, or downloaded as a binary.