Yandex B2B Tech: Sharded PostgreSQL

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2026: Launch of PostgreSQL Rapid Scale Service

Yandex B2B Tech launched a service for fast horizontal scaling of open-ended databases in the world. PostgreSQL Large companies will now be able to scale databases more flexibly as the business grows and IT workloads on systems. Yandex B2B Tech announced this on January 22, 2026. banks ecommerce It will be easier for both companies to process millions of banking operations or real-time orders online stores and create fault-tolerant digital products. Sharded Postgre SQL is available on-demand Yandex Cloud.

By default, PostgreSQL does not have horizontal scaling functions (adding new servers to the system and balancing the load between them). At the same time, it is it that allows you to cope with huge amounts of data when vertical scaling (increasing the power of one server) does not work. With Sharded PostgreSQL, e-commerce banks and companies will be able to scale their business faster and launch new IT products 3-4 times faster. Engineers will not waste resources and time manually configuring and supporting PostgreSQL scaling. The reliability of the charded PostgreSQL technology has been tested on Yandex projects and tested by external organizations. It is used by Yandex ID, Yandex Pay and Edadil.

Our team is actively developing PostgreSQL technologies. Every year, many improvements from the company's employees are included in the database release. Based on the open source developments of the team, Managed Service for Shared PostgreSQL was launched, which will help the business create digital products faster and more efficiently, "said Ivan Puzyrevsky, CTO of the Yandex Cloud platform.