ProxySQL
The facts below are what the maker publishes about ProxySQL, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From ProxySQL's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | Always open source · All ProxySQL Core Features · Community Support Channels · All supported platforms |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | ProxySQL Express SLA · SLA Guarantees · Health Monitoring & Alerting · MySQL/Amazon RDS/Percona Support · Custom Feature Development |
| Professional | Priced on request | 24x7x365 Support · Gold / Platinum Subscription · High Priority Bug Fixes · Architecture Solution Design · Web UI Administration |
The facts
Each one read from ProxySQL's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Availability
- ProxySQL monitors backend health and automatically reroutes traffic during failures.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Connection multiplexing
- It handles 100k+ client connections with a few hundred backend connections.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Database compatibility
- The site lists MySQL and PostgreSQL protocol compatibility, including MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, Neon, Supabase, and Timescale.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- The installation guide provides Linux distribution packages and describes Docker and Kubernetes deployment options.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Query routing
- Protocol-aware, regex-based routing sends queries to primary servers, replicas, or shards.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security
- The features page describes a database firewall intended to protect databases from SQL injection and runaway queries.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Sharding and caching
- It can route queries by user, schema, or table and cache query results at the proxy layer without application changes.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Commercial offerings include SLA-backed support, priority response, and dedicated account management; community users can use GitHub Discussions, Google Groups, and GitHub Issues.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Testing and rollout
- Query mirroring duplicates live traffic to secondary host groups for load analysis and performance testing, while percentage-based load balancing supports gradual traffic shifts.checked 30 Sep 2026
- What it does
- ProxySQL is a database proxy for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and their surrounding ecosystems that scales database infrastructure without changes to the application stack or database engine.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Company origin
- The company page says René Cannaò released ProxySQL as a GPLv3-licensed open source project in 2013 and founded ProxySQL that year.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Founded
- 2013checked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Linux support
- Listed supported distributions include RedHat/CentOS, Amazon Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, and openSUSE Leap, with version qualifications on the installation page.checked 30 Sep 2026
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