Introducing Azure HorizonDB - PostgreSQL

Run enterprise Postgres workloads on Azure HorizonDB with around 3x the throughput of self-managed deployments — zone-resilient by default, no architectural trade-offs. Call AI models directly from SQL, build durable vector pipelines inside the database, and deliver high-accuracy similarity search at massive scale with DiskANN and AI re-ranking, all without leaving PostgreSQL.

Debug and optimize queries faster with the Azure HorizonDB VS Code extension. Visualize execution plans, let Copilot generate fixes, and clone production data to test environments in seconds.

Charles Feddersen, PostgreSQL Partner Director PM, shares how to put all of it to work on Azure.

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00:00 - Azure HorizonDB features

00:57 - Open-source PostgreSQL

02:24 - How it works

03:37 - Performance

04:51 - Enterprise-ready security

05:34 - Memory & storage work together

06:29 - AI Model Management + AI Functions

08:24 - AI Pipelines

09:50 - DiskANN + AI Re-ranking

10:50 - VS Code Extension + Data Cloning

12:31 - Wrap up

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