The 10 Most Popular Postgres Extensions on Neon

Neon analyzed usage data from thousands of PostgreSQL databases to identify the 10 most popular extensions. The list includes plpgsql and pg_stat_statements (both in 1M+ databases), uuid-ossp (80k+), pgvector (30k+), pgcrypto (20k+), pg_trgm (10k+), postgis (8k+), citext (4k+), unaccent (2.5k+), and hstore (1k+). Each extension serves specific purposes from UUID generation and vector search to spatial data handling and fuzzy text matching. The data is presented through an interactive dashboard built with v0.