What is pghoard?
pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling for cloud object storages.
pghoard is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
pghoard is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to pghoard's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses pghoard?
pghoard Integrations
pghoard's Features
- Automatic periodic basebackups
- Automatic transaction log (WAL/xlog) backups (using either pg_receivexlog or archive_command)
- Cloud object storage support (AWS S3, Google Cloud, OpenStack Swift, Azure, Ceph)
- Backup restoration directly from object storage, compressed and encrypted
- Point-in-time-recovery (PITR)
- Initialize a new standby from object storage backups, automatically configured as a replicating hot-standby
pghoard Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to pghoard?
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
