Dingding Liu shares a sneak peek at Azure HorizonDB, the newest PostgreSQL managed service from Microsoft thats built for extreme scale and performance. 

See how HorizonDB decouples compute and storage, delivers sub millisecond multi zone commits, and powers AI native workloads with built in vector indexing and SQL based AI functions.

0:00 Introduction
0:31 Microsoft’s investment in PostgreSQL
0:47 What is Azure HorizonDB
1:19 Demo: Adding a new HorizonDB cluster in VS Code
1:50 Integration with Microsoft Foundry
2:05 Query conversion
2:59 Performance at scale
4:44 Extending to scaling out replica over shared storage
5:33 Wrap Up 

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Azure HorizonDB is a new managed PostgreSQL offering from Microsoft that decouples compute and storage, supporting up to 3,072 cores and 128TB storage with sub-millisecond multi-zone commit latency. It runs on AMD EPYC processors and includes native AI integration via Microsoft Foundry, enabling vector indexing and SQL-based AI functions (like GPT-based data extraction) out of the box. A new optimized DiskANN vector index consolidates filtering into a single operation, achieving ~3x better performance than the prior version. For OLTP workloads, HorizonDB delivers over 9,000 TPS compared to ~4,000 TPS with open-source PostgreSQL and Patroni. Read scaling across replicas reaches nearly 270,000 TPS with three replicas under a single load-balanced endpoint.

PostgreSQL Like a Pro: Build mission-critical apps at any scale with Azure HorizonDB