# Outgrowing Postgres: Handling growing data volumes

DevFeed: [Outgrowing Postgres: Handling growing data volumes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/outgrowing-postgres-handling-growing-data-volumes-18595.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/outgrowinghandling-growing-data-volumes>)

Author: Ariel Pérez

Published: 2025-01-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [techniques](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/techniques.md>), [the-data-base](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-data-base.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses how to handle growing Postgres data volumes at terabyte scale, suggesting optimization techniques before migration and considering when to move to another solution.

## Source excerpt

Postgres slowing down at terabyte scale? Before you migrate, try these optimization techniques. And know when it's time to move on.