Postgres Summit US2026

Postgres is one of the most popular open source databases in the world. That's why it has so many forks, Postgres-based databases with their own specific and additional features: analytical databases for statistical data, enterprise-level support for distributed clusters, cloud integrations, and many more.

From a development perspective, it may look like a good idea to build the whole project infrastructure on the Postgres forks: one query language, one set of administrative tools, predictable behavior. But is it really so?

Let's quickly review how far modern Postgres forks are from the original Postgres today and what you need to remember if you want to use them in your production environment.