Everything about Postgres-XL

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Postgres-XLA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Migrating Legacy Databases to Cloud: Challenges and Best Practices in AWS RDS and PostgresInfluential work since 2022
3. Read the landmark paper: The POSTGRES next generation database management systemCited 268 times
4. Go sideways: TransLatticeA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Multi-master replicationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The POSTGRES next generation database management system

  Michael Stonebraker, Greg Kemnitz · 1991 · Communications of the ACM · 268 citations

• The implementation of POSTGRES

  M. Stonebraker, L.A. Rowe, M. Hirohama · 1990 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 261 citations

• The design of POSTGRES

  Michael Stonebraker, Lawrence A. Rowe · 1986 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 164 citations

• The POSTGRES rule manager

  M. Stonebraker, E.N. Hanson, S. Potamianos · 1988 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 103 citations

• A commentary on the POSTGRES rules system

  M. Stonebraker, M. Hearst, S. Potamianos · 1989 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 32 citations

• Database of the Year: Postgres

  Adam Conrad · 2021 · IEEE Software · 7 citations

• Implementation of extended indexes in POSTGRES

  Paul M. Aoki · 1991 · ACM SIGIR Forum · 3 citations

• Postgres test article

  · 2025 · Test Publication · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Migrating Legacy Databases to Cloud: Challenges and Best Practices in AWS RDS and Postgres

  Harsha Vardhan Reddy Kavuluri, Suresh Babu Avula, Adithya Sirimalla · 2025 · Journal of Internet Services and Information Security · 1 citations

• A postgres mostgres article

  Sara Bowman · 2022 · Web Deposit Test with postgres · 0 citations

• Lakebase: Serverless Postgres over Open Lake Storage

  Jasraj Dange, Andrei Dragus, Ali Ghodsi · 2026 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 0 citations

• Konteneryzacja usług Django i Postgres z wykorzystaniem docker-compose

  Dr inż., Uniwersytet Technologiczno-Humanistyczny w Radomiu, Wydział Informatyki i Matematyki, Katedra Informatyki, Polska, Jacek Wołoszyn, Michał Wołoszyn · 2022 · Dydaktyka Informatyki · 0 citations

• Postgres Server Developer Bruce Momjian Discusses Multiversion Concurrency Control

  Robert Blumen · 2022 · IEEE Software · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

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🔗 Related topics

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