Concierge service for your database

Gold Lapel is a proxy service designed to enhance PostgreSQL databases by automating query optimization, caching, indexing, and search functionalities. It addresses common performance bottlenecks such as expensive JOINs, missing indexes, heavy GROUP BY operations, slow subqueries, and N+1 queries. The tool aims to deliver significant speed improvements for database queries, with evidence citing reductions from seconds to microseconds in benchmark scenarios involving large datasets and complex queries.

Gold Lapel offers three tiers of automated cache management, requiring users only to update their connection string for integration. It incorporates capabilities typically associated with Redis, such as caching, pub/sub, queues, sessions, rate limiting, sorted sets, and Lua scripting, but delivers them directly from PostgreSQL with ACID guarantees, default persistence, and SQL support. Similarly, it provides search features inspired by Elasticsearch, including full-text search, fuzzy and phonetic matching, vector similarity, autocomplete, aggregations, reverse search, and relevance tuning, all within PostgreSQL and enhanced by row-level security and transactional consistency.

NET—and integrates with frameworks such as Django, Rails, Spring Boot, and Laravel. It is compatible with ORMs like Prisma, Drizzle, and SQLAlchemy, and can be deployed on Docker, Linux, Mac, and Windows. Connection pooling is built in, supporting both session and transaction modes, read replica routing with read-after-write protection, automatic failover, and idle connection management tailored for serverless providers. No additional pooler or complex configuration is required.

Gold Lapel automatically creates and maintains materialized views for repetitive JOINs, GROUP BY, aggregations, subqueries, and CTEs, as well as a variety of indexes including B-tree, covering, GIN, HNSW, expression, and partial indexes. It features transparent query rewriting and smart materialized view consolidation, all without requiring client-side changes. The service also replaces or integrates with a range of other tool classes, including caching (Redis, Memcached), search (Elasticsearch, Meilisearch), document stores (MongoDB, DynamoDB), vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate), streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ), observability tools (ELK, Datadog, Splunk), authentication providers (Auth0, Clerk, Okta), and connection managers (PgBouncer, RDS Proxy).