Multigres is Built To Handle Tens of Thousands of Database Nodes | Supabase Select 2025

Sugu Sougoumarane is the creator of Vitess (the database sharding system that scaled YouTube) and is now building Multigress at Supabase.

In this talk, Sugu reveals why Postgres will hit a dead end at scale, how YouTube's database team went from telling developers "NO" to everything to enabling unlimited innovation, and how Multigress will take you from day one to petabyte scale—all while feeling like a single Postgres database.


0:00 - Intro: The LinkedIn Message That Got Ignored
1:17 - Why Multigress: The 30TB Database That Had Its First Outage
4:28 - What Is Multigress? Vitess for Postgres
6:13 - Day One: Connection Pooling & Query Intelligence
10:06 - Scaling Journey: Replicas & Read/Write Splitting
12:00 - High Availability: 99.999% Uptime (Five 9s)
14:04 - NVMe Performance: 10X Faster + HA
16:55 - Global Distribution: Click to Deploy Anywhere
18:20 - Enterprise Durability Policies Explained
20:21 - The Sharding Problem: When Your Primary Maxes Out
22:04 - Project Status: 300,000 Line Parser Just Landed
23:35 - Enterprise Features: Performance, Scalability, HA
24:46 - The YouTube Story: From "NO" to Unlimited Features
28:10 - What Are Shards? The Gaming Origin Story
30:40 - Small Teams Win: 10 People vs 300 at Google
32:04 - Postgres vs MySQL: Why Postgres Must Win
35:36 - Why Open Source: "It Must Be or Won't Thrive"
38:03 - Why Not a Startup? Velocity Over Distractions
41:26 - Timeline: Production Ready Early 2025
43:50 - Q&A: PlanetScale, Kubernetes Operator, Technical Challenges
54:02 - The 2010 NoSQL Mistake: Database People Failed
57:30 - Final Question: How to Adopt Multigress on Supabase


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ABOUT MULTIGRESS:
Multigress is an open-source Postgres scaling solution built by the creator of Vitess. It provides connection pooling, high availability, global distribution, and automatic sharding—taking you from your first database to petabyte scale while still feeling like a single Postgres instance.

ABOUT SUPABASE:
Supabase is the open source Firebase alternative. Supabase provides a full Postgres database for every project with pgvector, backups, realtime, and more. Add and manage email and password, passwordless, OAuth, and mobile logins to your project through a suite of identity providers and APIs.

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