Subscription

Pigsty aims to unite the power of the PostgreSQL ecosystem and help users make the most of the world’s most popular database, PostgreSQL, with self-driving database management software.

While Pigsty itself has already resolved many issues in PostgreSQL usage, achieving truly enterprise-grade service quality requires expert support and comprehensive coverage from the original provider. We deeply understand the importance of professional commercial support for enterprise customers. Therefore, Pigsty Enterprise Edition provides a series of value-added services on top of the open-source version, helping users better utilize PostgreSQL and Pigsty for customers to choose according to their needs.

If you have any of the following needs, please consider Pigsty subscription service:

• Running databases in critical scenarios requiring strict SLA guarantees and comprehensive coverage.
• Need comprehensive support for complex issues related to Pigsty and PostgreSQL.
• Seeking guidance on PostgreSQL/Pigsty production environment best practices.
• Want experts to help interpret monitoring dashboards, analyze and identify performance bottlenecks and fault root causes, and provide recommendations.
• Need to plan database architectures that meet security/disaster recovery/compliance requirements based on existing resources and business needs.
• Need to migrate from other databases to PostgreSQL, or migrate and transform legacy instances.
• Building an observability system, data dashboards, and visualization applications based on the Prometheus/Grafana technology stack.
• Migrating off cloud and seeking open-source alternatives to RDS for PostgreSQL - cloud-neutral, vendor lock-in-free solutions.
• Want professional support for Redis/ETCD/MinIO, as well as extensions like TimescaleDB/Citus.
• Want to avoid AGPL v3 license restrictions that mandate derivative works to use the same open-source license, for secondary development and OEM branding.
• Want to sell Pigsty as SaaS/PaaS/DBaaS, or provide technical services/consulting/cloud services based on this distribution.

Subscription Plans

In addition to the Open Source Edition, Pigsty offers two different subscription service tiers: Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition, which you can choose based on your actual situation and needs.

Pigsty Open Source Edition (OSS)

Pigsty Open Source Edition uses the AGPLv3 license, provides complete core functionality, requires no fees, but does not guarantee any warranty service. If you find defects in Pigsty, we welcome you to submit an Issue on Github.

If you are a regular end user (i.e., users other than public cloud providers and database vendors), we actually enforce the more permissive Apache 2.0 license - even if you perform secondary development on Pigsty, we will not pursue this.

For the open source version, we provide pre-built standard offline software packages for PostgreSQL 18 on the latest minor versions of three specific operating system distributions: EL 9.4, Debian 12.7, Ubuntu 22.04.5 (as support for open source, we also provide Debian 12 Arm64 offline software packages).

Using the Pigsty open source version allows junior development/operations engineers to have 70%+ of the capabilities of professional DBAs. Even without database experts, they can easily set up a highly available, high-performance, easy-to-maintain, secure and reliable PostgreSQL database cluster.

= Primary support, = Optional support

Pigsty Professional Edition (PRO)

Pigsty Professional Edition subscription provides complete functional modules and warranty for Pigsty itself. For defects in PostgreSQL itself and extension plugins, we will make our best efforts to provide feedback and fixes through the PostgreSQL global developer community.

Pigsty Professional Edition is built on the open source version, fully compatible with all features of the open source version, and provides additional functional modules and broader database/operating system version compatibility options: we will provide build options for all minor versions of five mainstream operating system distributions.

Pigsty Professional Edition includes support for the latest two PostgreSQL major versions (18, 17), providing all available extension plugins in both major versions, ensuring you can smoothly migrate to the latest PostgreSQL major version through rolling upgrades.

Pigsty Professional Edition subscription allows you to use China mainland mirror site software repositories, accessible without VPN/proxy; we will also customize offline software installation packages for your exact operating system major/minor version, ensuring normal installation and delivery in air-gapped environments, achieving autonomous and controllable deployment.

Pigsty Professional Edition subscription provides standard expert consulting services, including complex issue analysis, DBA Q&A support, backup compliance advice, etc. We commit to responding to your issues within business hours (5x8), and provide 1 person-day support per year, with optional person-day add-on options.

Pigsty Professional Edition uses a commercial license and provides written contractual exemption from AGPLv3 open source obligations. Even if you perform secondary development on Pigsty and violate the AGPLv3 license by not open-sourcing, we will not pursue this.

Pigsty Professional Edition starting price is ¥150,000 / year, equivalent to the annual fee for 9 vCPU AWS high-availability RDS PostgreSQL, or a junior operations engineer with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan.

Pigsty Enterprise Edition

Pigsty Enterprise Edition subscription includes all service content provided by the Pigsty Professional Edition subscription, plus the following value-added service items:

Pigsty Enterprise Edition subscription provides the broadest range of database/operating system version support, including extended support for EOL operating systems (EL7, U20, D11), domestic operating systems, cloud vendor operating systems, and EOL database major versions (from PG 13 onwards), as well as full support for Arm64 architecture chips.

Pigsty Enterprise Edition subscription provides 信创 (domestic innovation) and localization solutions, allowing you to use PolarDB v2.0 (this kernel license needs to be purchased separately) kernel to replace the native PostgreSQL kernel to meet domestic compliance requirements.

Pigsty Enterprise Edition subscription provides higher-standard enterprise-level consulting services, committing to 7x24 with (< 1h) response time SLA, and can provide more types of consulting support: version upgrades, performance bottleneck identification, annual architecture review, extension plugin integration, etc.

Pigsty Enterprise Edition subscription includes 2 person-days of support per year, with optional person-day add-on options, for resolving more complex and time-consuming issues.

Pigsty Enterprise Edition allows you to use Pigsty for DBaaS purposes, building cloud database services for external sales.

Pigsty Enterprise Edition starting price is ¥400,000 / year, equivalent to the annual fee for 24 vCPU AWS high-availability RDS, or an operations expert with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan.

Pigsty Subscription Notes

Feature Differences

Pigsty Professional/Enterprise Edition includes the following additional features compared to the open source version:

• Command Line Management Tool: Unlock the full functionality of the Pigsty command line tool (pig)
• System Customization Capability: Provide pre-built offline installation packages for exact mainstream Linux operating system distribution major/minor versions
• Offline Installation Capability: Complete Pigsty installation in environments without Internet access (air-gapped environments)
• Multi-version PG Kernel: Allow users to freely specify and install PostgreSQL major versions within the lifecycle (13 - 17)
• Kernel Replacement Capability: Allow users to use other PostgreSQL-compatible kernels to replace the native PG kernel, and the ability to install these kernels offline
  • Babelfish: Provides Microsoft SQL Server wire protocol-level compatibility
  • IvorySQL: Based on PG, provides Oracle syntax/type/stored procedure compatibility
  • PolarDB PG: Provides support for open-source PolarDB for PostgreSQL kernel
  • PolarDB O: 信创 database, Oracle-compatible kernel that meets domestic compliance requirements (Enterprise Edition subscription only)
• Extension Support Capability: Provides out-of-the-box installation for 440 available PG Extensions for PG 13-18 on mainstream operating systems.
• Complete Functional Modules: Provides all functional modules:
  • Supabase: Reliably self-host production-grade open-source Firebase
  • MinIO: Enterprise PB-level object storage planning and self-hosting
  • DuckDB: Provides comprehensive DuckDB support, and PostgreSQL + DuckDB OLAP extension plugin support
  • Kafka: Provides high-availability Kafka cluster deployment and monitoring
  • Kubernetes, VictoriaMetrics & VictoriaLogs
• Domestic Operating System Support: Provides domestic 信创 operating system support options (Enterprise Edition subscription only)
• Domestic ARM Architecture Support: Provides domestic ARM64 architecture support options (Enterprise Edition subscription only)
• China Mainland Mirror Repository: Smooth installation without VPN, providing domestic YUM/APT repository mirrors and DockerHub access proxy.
• Chinese Interface Support: Monitoring system Chinese interface support (Beta)

Payment Model

Pigsty subscription uses an annual payment model. After signing the contract, the one-year validity period is calculated from the contract date. If payment is made before the subscription contract expires, it is considered automatic renewal. Consecutive subscriptions have discounts. The first renewal (second year) enjoys a 95% discount, the second and subsequent renewals enjoy a 90% discount on subscription fees, and one-time subscriptions for three years or more enjoy an overall 85% discount.

After the annual subscription contract terminates, you can choose not to renew the subscription service. Pigsty will no longer provide software updates, technical support, and consulting services, but you can continue to use the already installed version of Pigsty Professional Edition software. If you subscribed to Pigsty professional services and choose not to renew, when re-subscribing you do not need to make up for the subscription fees during the interruption period, but all discounts and benefits will be reset.

Pigsty’s pricing strategy ensures value for money - you can immediately get top DBA’s database architecture construction solutions and management best practices, with their consulting support and comprehensive coverage; while the cost is highly competitive compared to hiring database experts full-time or using cloud databases. Here are market references for enterprise-level database professional service pricing:

• AWS RDS for PostgreSQL High Availability Edition: ¥1,160 ~ ¥1,582 / (vCPU·month), equivalent to 14K ~ 19K/year (per vCPU)
• Alibaba Cloud RDS for PostgreSQL High Availability Edition: ¥270 ~ ¥432 / (vCPU·month), equivalent to 3K ~ 5K/year (per vCPU)
• EDB PostgreSQL Cloud Database Enterprise Edition: $183.3 / (vCPU·month), equivalent to 16K/year (per vCPU)
• Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL Kubernetes: $3200 / (Core·year), equivalent to 12K/year (per vCPU)
• Oracle Annual Service Fee: (Enterprise $47,500 + Rac $23,000) * 22% per year, equivalent to 28K/year (per vCPU)

The fair price for decent database professional services is 10,000 ~ 20,000 yuan / year, with the billing unit being vCPU, i.e., one CPU thread (1 Intel core = 2 vCPU threads). Pigsty provides top-tier PostgreSQL expert services in China and adopts a per-node billing model. On commonly seen high-core-count server nodes, it brings users an unparalleled cost reduction and efficiency improvement experience.

Pigsty Expert Services

In addition to Pigsty subscription, Pigsty also provides on-demand Pigsty x PostgreSQL expert services - industry-leading database experts available for consultation.

Contact Information

Please send an email to [email protected]. Users in mainland China are welcome to add WeChat ID RuohangFeng.