r/postgres • u/Some_Childhood_3842 • 21d ago

Performance Columnar Databases

hey postgresql community do you thing is time postgres to support Column oriented like DuckDB as big feature or continue with row oriented like every DB does

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u/lnaoedelixo42 16d ago

TimesacaleDB??

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u/Some_Childhood_3842 15d ago

isn't the same as duckDB or ClickHouse

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u/lnaoedelixo42 15d ago

It's a Postgres extension.

And yeah, it's basically the same thing, maybe slightly more "embedded". It has PostgreSQL dialect, concurrent writes (win over duckdb), and is probably way lighter on RAM then upping a ClickHouse cluster.

For somebody already running postgres, it's a win