What is PgSync?
Sync data from one Postgres database to another. It is a command line tool that is designed for speed, security, flexibility, and convenience.
PgSync is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
PgSync is an open source tool with 3.4K GitHub stars and 212 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to PgSync's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses PgSync?
Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PgSync.
PgSync Integrations
PgSync's Features
- speed - tables are transferred in parallel
- security - built-in methods to prevent sensitive data from ever leaving the server
- flexibility - gracefully handles schema differences, like missing columns and extra columns
- convenience - sync partial tables, groups of tables, and related records
PgSync Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to PgSync?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
