PostgreSQL DBaaS: benchANT Framework Coverage and What Comes Next
An overview of supported PostgreSQL Database-as-a-Service offerings in the benchANT benchmarking framework, and a call for community input on where to go next.
Current numbers show that PostgreSQL is eating the database world. From Postgres is eating the database world to the Stack Overflow 2025 developer survey analysis, PostgreSQL has grown into the dominant reference point for relational data management, with its reach expanding into analytical, cloud-native, and distributed workload categories.
Also the number of PostgreSQL-based DBaaS offerings has grown rapidly: across hyperscalers, Tier 2 cloud providers, and dedicated PostgreSQL platforms, PostgreSQL offering everywhere. With it has also grown the need for independent, transparent, and reproducible performance comparisons across all these offerings. Marketing claims and vendor-run benchmarks are abundant, objective, methodology-disclosed results are not.
This is why benchANT has extended its framework to cover the major PostgreSQL DBaaS players and to give the community a neutral, reproducible basis for comparing these offerings under consistent conditions. This post provides an overview of the providers currently supported, outlines a planned large-scale performance study, and invites community input on which additional providers to include next.
PostgreSQL's Rising Dominance in the DBaaS Ecosystem
PostgreSQL has grown into one of the (some would say THE) most widely adopted relational databases and its influence now extends well beyond traditional on-premises deployments. A few structural trends illustrate how deeply it has shaped the DBaaS landscape:
- Analytical platforms are adding PostgreSQL compatibility: Major players including Snowflake, Databricks, and ClickHouse have moved to acquire or partner with PostgreSQL-native companies and to align their query interfaces with PostgreSQL syntax.
- Managed PostgreSQL is a standard offering across cloud providers: Whether evaluating a hyperscaler or a regional Tier 2 provider, the availability of managed PostgreSQL service can be broadly expected. Differentiation has shifted from whether or not to how well that service is implemented, tuned, and integrated.
- Hyperscalers have developed their own PostgreSQL-compatible services: AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, Google AlloyDB, and Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (Citus) are custom, re-engineered offerings with distinct performance and operational characteristics compared to standard managed PostgreSQL.
- A growing set of dedicated PostgreSQL DBaaS providers has emerged: Companies such as Neon (aquired by Databricks), Supabase, Tiger Data, and others have built their platforms entirely around PostgreSQL, offering cloud-native features that go beyond what standard managed offerings typically provide. This includes for instance branching, serverless autoscaling, extensions marketplaces.
The result is a fragmented but highly active market: many providers, all offering "PostgreSQL as a Service", but with meaningfully different performance, scalability, and operational characteristics under the hood. For engineering teams evaluating or comparing these offerings, this fragmentation makes independent, reproducible benchmarking more important than ever. A gap the benchANT framework is closing now.
Supported PostgreSQL DBaaS Offerings in benchANT Framework
The benchANT framework currently supports a broad set of PostgreSQL DBaaS providers. The table below gives a structured overview, grouped by provider type. The "Origin" column indicates whether the provider is US-based, EU-based, or global.
Hyperscaler Offerings
| Provider | Offering | Origin | Supported Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | RDS PostgreSQL | US | 2023 |
| Google Cloud | Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL | US | 2023 |
| Microsoft Azure | Azure Database for PostgreSQL | US | 2023 |
| AWS | Aurora PostgreSQL | US | 2024 |
| Alibaba Cloud | ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL | CN | 2025 |
| Google Cloud | AlloyDB | US | 2025 |
| Microsoft Azure | Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (Citus) | US | 2025 |
| Tencent Cloud | TencentDB for PostgreSQL | CN | 2025 |
| Alibaba Cloud | PolarDB for PostgreSQL | CN | coming soon |
| Microsoft Azure | Azure HorizonDB | US | coming soon |
Tier 2 Cloud Providers
| Provider | Offering | Origin | Supported Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| IONOS | IONOS PostgreSQL | EU | 2023 |
| OVHcloud | OVH PostgreSQL | EU | 2023 |
| T-Systems | T Cloud Public PostgreSQL | EU | 2023 |
| STACKIT | STACKIT PostgreSQL | EU | 2024 |
| DigitalOcean | Managed PostgreSQL | US | 2025 |
| Exoscale | Exoscale PostgreSQL | EU | 2025 |
| Scaleway | Scaleway PostgreSQL | EU | 2025 |
| UpCloud | UpCloud PostgreSQL | EU | 2025 |
| Leafcloud | Leafcloud PostgreSQL | EU | coming soon |
| Vultr | Vultr Managed PostgreSQL | US | coming soon |
Dedicated PostgreSQL Providers
Dedicated PostgreSQL providers are companies whose platform is built entirely around PostgreSQL, often offering features such as serverless autoscaling, database branching, extensions marketplaces, or PostgreSQL-compatible distributed architectures that go beyond standard managed offerings.
| Provider | Offering | Origin | Supported Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aiven | Aiven for PostgreSQL | EU | 2024 |
| CockroachDB | CockroachDB (PostgreSQL-compatible) | US | 2025 |
| NetApp Instaclustr | Instaclustr for PostgreSQL | US | 2025 |
| PlanetScale | PlanetScale for PostgreSQL | US | 2025 |
| TigerData | TigerData PostgreSQL | US | 2025 |
| Databricks | Databricks Lakebase PostgreSQL | US | coming soon |
| Elest.io | Elest.io PostgreSQL | EU | coming soon |
| Snowflake | Snowflake PostgreSQL | US | coming soon |
| Supabase | Supabase PostgreSQL | US | coming soon |
| Tessell | Tessell PostgreSQL | US | coming soon |
| Ubicloud | Ubicloud PostgreSQL | EU | coming soon |
All supported providers can be benchmarked using the standard benchANT workloads YCSB, OLTP, OLAP, HTAP, Vector Search, Time-Series under fully reproducible conditions.
If you are a DBaaS provider and want your offering included in the benchANT framework or the open database ranking, reach out to info@benchant.com.
What's Coming: A Large-Scale PostgreSQL DBaaS Performance Study
Beyond the framework support listed above, the benchANT team is currenty executing a structured, large-scale performance study of the PostgreSQL DBaaS market.
The study systematically compares managed PostgreSQL offerings across providers under identical workloads, configuration, and infrastructure constraints. The goal is not to declare a winner, but to provide the engineering and DevOps community with an objective, reproducible, and publicly available dataset that captures real performance differences between services.
Community Poll: Which PostgreSQL DBaaS Provider Are You Most Interested In?
The study includes hyperscalers, Tier 2 providers, and offerings from dedicated PostgreSQL providers (see above). The open question is: Which additional dedicated PostgreSQL DBaaS providers should be part of it? Which providers does the community actually want to see compared?
We are running a LinkedIn poll to find out which PostgreSQL DBaaS provider you are most interested in seeing benchmarked. The results will directly shape what we publish next.
The poll winner will be benchmarked head-to-head against the hyperscaler PostgreSQL offerings and the results will be published as a dedicated blog post with full methodology disclosure, reproducible conditions, and publicly available raw data.
If the provider you care about is not listed in the poll, or if you want to advocate for a specific platform, reach out directly: info@benchant.com.