PostgreSQL on Arm: Ecosystem, Optimization & Tuning

2020 was a year of rapid growth for Arm Data center hardware, tech giants like AWS, Ampere, Apple etc have released their powerful Arm products, ARM is known to have a lower cost of ownership there-by delivering more TPS for the same cost, effectively generating cost savings. And yet the newly released hardware is also quite powerful. PostgreSQL has been releasing packages for ARM for quite some time. So how will PostgreSQL perform on ARM? In this session, we will introduce what we have done in the PG upstream for ARM and why, sharing the real experience of PostgreSQL tuning on ARM platform. On the other hand, only database kernel available on Arm is not enough, there are still gaps between PoC and production, so we need to still focus on the whole PostgreSQL ecosystem/others aspects. We will also provide a whole view of them in this session. Speakers: Bo Zhao and Amit Khandekar – Huawei