SAsaikatsg·Oct 13, 2026Submission
PGlite: Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings
9 points · Open discussionneondatabase
electric-pglite
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Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings.
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Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings.
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6 sourcesPGLite: Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings
1 points · Open discussionIt absolutely can be embedded. The bigger enabler is replacing the process-per-connection model with a thread-per-connection model. Projects like pglite[0] had to give up concurrency because of it. We also support compiling to wasm so you can embed it in the browser too, which is what powers pgrust.com
[0] https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
[1] https://pgrust.com/
In Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMDWhich one? https://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/pgembed or https://github.com/faokunega/pg-embed ?
Both will either download or ship the postgres binary with your app, and run it in a separate process. Pglite is different, it's actually a library (they have stripped some parts of the postgres source code) and it could in principle be ported to be used as a native library (meaning, you link to it and run as a single program)
There's even a draft PR to do this, but it became stale
https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/842
Right now what exists is, grabbing the pglite wasm and running it on native code on wasi
https://github.com/f0rr0/pglite-oxide
In PGLite Evangelism