Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants

Presenters Gwen Shapira Source PGConf.dev 2025 Nile: Scaling PostgreSQL with Tenant Isolation - A Deep Dive 🚀 Ever wondered how to handle millions of tenants on a single PostgreSQL instance? The team behind Nile has tackled this ambitious goal, and their insights into a scalable tenant database are fascinating. This post dives into the architecture, motivations, benefits, and challenges of Nile, a system designed to handle massive multi-tenancy while retaining the power and flexibility of PostgreSQL. ...

June 9, 2025 · 4 min