A list of PostgreSQL derived forks and rebranded distributions in alphabetical order.
| Name |
Vendor |
License |
Availability |
Notes |
| Aster Data |
Teradata |
Proprietary |
2005-.... |
PostgreSQL + Map/Reduce |
| BDR |
2ndQuadrant |
BSD |
2014- |
PostgreSQL Multi Master,contributed actively back to Core PG |
| Bizgres |
Greenplum |
BSD |
2005-2007 |
PostgreSQL + BI features |
| Citus |
Citus Data |
AGPL-3.0 |
2012- |
Sharding and replication across many servers with MPP[1] |
| Cybercluster |
Cybertec |
BSD |
2007-2010 |
Clustering (pgCluster fork) |
| Greenplum Database |
Greenplum |
Apache2 |
2005-.... |
PostgreSQL + BI features (formerly known as "Bizgres MPP")[2] |
| ExtenDB |
ExtenDB |
Proprietary |
2003-2007 |
PostgreSQL + BI Features[3] |
| FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres |
Fujitsu |
proprietary |
2006-.... |
Full PostgreSQL compatibility with additional functionality[4] |
| GresCube |
NTT DATA |
Proprietary |
2012-.... |
Database appliance solution based on PostgreSQL[5] |
| GridSQL |
EnterpriseDB |
GPL |
2007-2010 |
PostgreSQL + BI Features (formerly ExtenDB)[6] |
| Great Bridge PostgreSQL |
Great Bridge LLC |
BSD |
1999-2001 |
PostgreSQL re-distribution |
| HadoopDB |
Yale University |
Apache License V2.0 |
2009-.... |
PostgreSQL + shared-nothing cluster + Hadoop[7] |
| Hadapt |
Teradata |
Proprietary |
2011-.... |
HadoopDB fork |
| Mammoth |
Command Prompt |
BSD |
2005-2010 |
PostgreSQL + proprietary replication + extensions |
| Netezza |
IBM |
proprietary |
2002-.... |
Appliance based on PostgreSQL SQL engine |
| NuSphere UltraSQL |
NuSphere |
proprietary |
2002-2003 |
Native Win32 port of PostgreSQL |
| ParAccel |
Actian |
proprietary |
2005-.... |
PostgreSQL + BI features[8] |
| Pervasive PostgreSQL |
Pervasive |
BSD |
2005-2006 |
PostgreSQL re-distribution |
| pgCluster |
SRA |
BSD |
2002-2005 |
Clustering (Share Nothing) |
| pgCluster-II |
SRA |
BSD |
2006-2007 |
Clustering (Shared Disk) |
| pgPool-II |
pgPool GDG |
BSD |
2006-.... |
Clustering (Connection Pooling / Replication / Load-Balancing) |
| PipelineDB |
PipelineDB |
GPL v3 |
2015-.... |
Streaming SQL |
| PostgresForest |
NTT DATA |
BSD |
2006-2010 |
Clustering / PostgresForest is a fork of the JDBC driver,not from the backend code. |
| Postgres Plus |
EnterpriseDB |
OSS |
2008-.... |
PostgreSQL + contrib + apps + drivers |
| Postgres Plus Advanced Server |
EnterpriseDB |
proprietary |
2008-.... |
Postgres + Oracle compatibility + apps,formally EnterpriseDB AS[9] |
| Postgres-R |
PGDG |
BSD |
2006-2010 |
Clustering |
| Postgres-X2 |
PGX2DG |
BSD |
2015- |
Clustering (formerly Postgres-XC) |
| Postgres-XC |
PGXCDG |
BSD |
2010-2013 |
Clustering[10] |
| Postgres-XL |
PGXLDG |
BSD |
2014-.... |
Clustering |
| PowerGres |
SRA OSS |
proprietary |
2003-.... |
Native Win32 port of PostgreSQL and Linux RPM |
| PowerGres Plus |
SRA OSS |
proprietary |
2003-.... |
PostgreSQL + custom storage engine,redundant WAL,encrypted database[11] |
| PostgreSQL for Solaris |
Sun |
TPL |
2006-2009 |
PostgreSQL re-distribution |
| RecDB |
umn.edu |
BSD |
2013-.... |
Recommendation Engine[12] |
| Red Hat Database |
Red Hat |
BSD |
2002-2003 |
PostgreSQL re-distribution |
| Redshift |
Amazon |
Private/Cloud-based |
2013-.... |
Data Warehouse on AWS (based on ParACCEL)[13][14] |
| Stado |
Stado GDG |
GPL |
2011-2011 |
PostgreSQL + BI Features (fork of GridSQL)[15] |
| TelegraphCQ |
UC Berkeley |
BSD |
2000-2008 |
Data Stream oriented fork of PostgreSQL |
| ToroDB |
8Kdata |
AGPLv3 |
2015-... |
Turns PostgreSQL into a NoSQL database compatible with MongoDB. It can work as a standalone database or a secondary node of a MongoDB replicaset. |
| TruCQ |
Truviso |
proprietary |
2008-2012 |
Fork of TelegraphCQ |
| Vertica |
HP |
proprietary |
2005-.... |
Column-oriented DataWarehouse (created by Stonebraker),
may only be forking the psql client library. |
| Yahoo! Everest |
Yahoo! |
private |
2008-.... |
multi-petabyte database / MPP[16] |
Related documents
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Timeline_PostgreSQL
- https://github.com/rafaelma/postgresql-timeline
- http://de.slideshare.net/pgconf/elephant-roads-a-tour-of-postgres-forks
- https://github.com/daamien/artwork/tree/master/inkscape/PostgreSQL_timeline
