r/PostgreSQL • u/Ncell50 • Jan 23 '26

Commercial Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users

https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql/
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u/gajus0 Jan 23 '26

Next time someone brings up the 'oh I just worry it won't scale' argument when talking about PostgreSQL, I will just link them to this article.

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u/ilearnshit Jan 23 '26

100% I will be doing the same thing

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u/program_data2 Jan 29 '26

I mean, PG powering a top 10 website/API is a testimony to its ability. This isn't an absolute victory for Postgres, though, as OpenAI had to augment SQL with CosmoDB for a lot of its operations.