Controllable FOSS: Sovereign Self-Hosting
Grounded like the earth, gathering all rivers—standing firm while gazing at the stars!
Software Freedom: Self-hosting democratized
100% built upon open-source components, carrying the spirit of freedom.
Bring top-tier self-hosting PostgreSQL RDS within everyone's reach
- •A gift to the PostgreSQL community and its users
- •No license fees or usage limits, free at any scale
- •A reciprocal open-source ecosystem that benefits all
Permissions:
- ✓Commercial use
- ✓Modification
- ✓Distribution
- ✓Patent use
- ✓Private use
Conditions:
- ⚡License & Copyright notice
- ⚡State changes
- ⚡Disclose source
- ⚡Same license
- ⚡Network use is distribution
Limitations:
- ⊘Liability
- ⊘Warranty
Local-First: Run on-premises indefinitely
Fully functional even offline, running forever without external dependencies.
Local repo ensure you always have matching packages ready for new nodes.
- •Requires no external services, supports offline deployment and installation
- •All software at deployment time is snapshotted to a local software repo
- •Deploy on any node—physical, bare metal, VM, and even container VMs

Multi-Cloud: No vendor lock-in, Cloud Neutrality
Build your own full-stack DBaaS, reducing clouds to mere resource providers.
Say no to vendor lock-in: compare offerings and choose whats best.
- •Use Terraform to quickly provision required servers across various clouds
- •Blue-green migration via logical repl makes cross-cloud moves effortless
- •Cloud OSS, CDN, and more remain optional — use them if you wish

Free Extensions: Install any extensions you want
Pigsty offers an unmatched 420+ PG extensions, ready to use out of the box.
No more constraints imposed by cloud vendor' security policies or OSS quirks
- •Built for PG 17–13 on mainstream distro: EL/Debian/Ubuntu x x86_64/ARM64
- •Out-of-the-box RPM/DEB packages, compatible with ten major Linux distros
- •Extension Catalog and the pig package manager, install with one command
Data Ownership: Truly under your control
Pay for resources at fair cost, enjoy the cutting-edge hardware price advantage.
Gain real agility in emergencies, instead of passively waiting for a miracle.
- •Pay roughly 1% of the cloud price and access top-tier NVMe SSD performance
- •Obtain superuser privileges, truly own your database with the full control
- •Bypass lengthy external RDS support chains—fix issues directly with SOP
Storage Pricing | Unit $/TB·Month |
---|---|
DHH / Gen4 NVMe SSD 12T | 3 |
Tantan / Enterprise NVMe SSD MLC 3.2T | 2 |
Alibaba Cloud ESSD PL3 (3-year plan) | 278 |
AWS io2 fully provisioned: 64T, 256k IOPS | 273 |
Friendly License: We don't bite you
AGPLv3 License to preserve software freedom against public cloud strip-mining.
Essentially Apache 2.0 for common end users to maxmize the freedom of use.
- •For typical end-users, it effectively mirrors Apache-like permissive use
- •For cloud/database vendors who wish to re-distribute, it is AGPLv3, or:
- •Commercial licenses available for DBaaS & OEM scenarios

Compliance Ready: Aligned with best practice
The most influential PostgreSQL projects from China in the global PG ecosystem
Achieve compliance goals without sacrificing features or service quality.
- •OSSRank PG Extension Ecosystem: ranked #1 among China-led PG projects
- •Meets domestic requirements: supports PolarDB v2.0 kernel, PG-compatible
- •Enterprise Edition supports domestic OS, chip architectures, and DB kernels

Expert Support: Top experts backing you
Let the top-tier PostgreSQL specialists guard your mission-critical needs
Affordable subscription plans, there's no sales — win-win for everyone.
- •Enjoy service guarantees plus extensive PG and OS support
- •Senior experts provide guidance and troubleshooting, saving you time
- •Choose from multiple tiers of support—cost-effective, tailored to your needs

PIGSTY