# Connection Pooling (/docs/accelerate/connection-pooling)

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Learn about everything you need to know to use Accelerate's connection pooling

Location: Accelerate > Connection Pooling

Accelerate provides built-in connection pooling to efficiently manage database connections. It's included as part of [Prisma Postgres](https://www.prisma.io/docs/postgres), but you can also use it with your own database by enabling Accelerate in the [Prisma Data Platform](https://console.prisma.io?utm_source=docs) and [connecting it to your database](https://www.prisma.io/docs/accelerate/getting-started).
This page has moved, connection pooling in Prisma Accelerate is now documented in the [Prisma Postgres section](https://www.prisma.io/docs/postgres/database/connection-pooling).

## Related pages

- [`Caching queries`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/accelerate/caching): Learn everything you need to know to use Accelerate's global database caching
- [`Compare Accelerate`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/accelerate/compare): Learn how Prisma Accelerate compares to other connection poolers like pgbouncer
- [`Evaluating`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/accelerate/evaluating): Learn about evaluating Prisma Accelerate
- [`Examples`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/accelerate/examples): Check out ready-to-run examples for Prisma Accelerate
- [`Getting started`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/accelerate/getting-started): Learn how to get up and running with Prisma Accelerate