News, technical articles, and announcements from the ProxySQL team.
Part 4 of the PgBouncer to ProxySQL series. Benchmarks ProxySQL and PgBouncer under PostgreSQL's extended and prepared query protocols. ProxySQL keeps the lead and widens it as worker threads increase.
by Rahim Kanji
Benchmarking the PostgreSQL middle tier under SSL — PgBouncer vs ProxySQL (1/2/4 workers), same hardware, same 4KB SELECT workload. pgbench simple mode.
by Rahim Kanji
ProxySQL 3.0.8 extends session-variable tracking beyond parsed SET statements by consuming MySQL session-state notifications from backend OK packets.
by Wazir Ahmed
Part 2 of the PgBouncer to ProxySQL series. A direct comparison of what each tool does, focused on responsibilities PgBouncer deliberately leaves alone and that ProxySQL pulls into the proxy itself. Reflects ProxySQL 3.0.8 and PgBouncer 1.25.1 at time of writing.
by Rahim Kanji
Part 1 of the PgBouncer to ProxySQL series. Focus: architecture and operator model, not a full feature matrix. Reflects ProxySQL 3.0.7 and PgBouncer 1.25.1 at time of writing.
by Rahim Kanji
ProxySQL 3.0.8 introduces MySQL session-variable tracking, PostgreSQL Cluster Sync, per-server backend SSL, and mid-transaction recovery. Also announcing 3.1.8 and 4.0.8.
by Rene Cannao
ProxySQL 3.0.7 introduces two new statistics tables for TLS certificate tracking and global proxy metrics.
by Rene Cannao
A deep dive into the protocol hardening, credential protection, and validation improvements in ProxySQL 3.0.7.
by Rene Cannao
How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure
by Rene' Cannao'
How ProxySQL for PostgreSQL handles unplanned primary failure
by Rene' Cannao'
A deep dive into the Provider interface that makes dbdeployer multi-database. How we abstracted MySQL, added PostgreSQL, and made it extensible for any database.
by Rene' Cannao'
First blog post of a series about ProxySQL for PostgreSQL and how it handles failover
by Rene' Cannao'
A walk-through of the PostgreSQL prepared-statement cache refactor — what was slow, why, and how the redesign turned a contended path into a contention-free one
by Rahim Kanji
ProxySQL 3.0.7 adds native zstd compression for the MySQL protocol, offering better compression ratios and lower CPU overhead compared to zlib.
by Rene Cannao
ProxySQL officially takes over the maintenance and development of Orchestrator, ensuring a bright future for the industry-standard database topology management tool.
by Rene Cannao
ProxySQL 3.0.7 brings protocol hardening, zstd compression, TLS certificate tracking, and new security improvements. Also announcing 3.1.7 and 4.0.7.
by Rene Cannao
A preview of the features we're shipping — from InnoDB Cluster to PostgreSQL support. This is just the beginning.
by Rene' Cannao'
A first look at why this project matters, why we decided to maintain it, and why supporting tools for both MySQL and PostgreSQL is part of our broader open source commitment
by Rene Cannao
Built-in Time-Series Metrics, No Prometheus Required. Query Your Metrics History Directly from ProxySQL
by Rene Cannao
ProxySQL Is Coming to Percona Live 2026 – And It's Not Just for MySQL Anymore
by Ronald Bradford
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