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Redshift isn’t just a custom storage tier atop an older version of Postgres. It has an entirely different execution engine that compiles commands to an executab
by koolba 8y ago
Redshift isn’t just a custom storage tier atop an older version of Postgres. It has an entirely different execution engine that compiles commands to an executable and farms them out to multiple data nodes.
- manigandham 8y agoYes, I was trying to keep it simple but that detail only further supports the fact that these changes have no value to upstream.
- pas 8y agoThat's a pretty strong claim. There's bound to be one Apache project (even a future one) that could utilize that code/knowhow.
- manigandham 8y agoWhat does Postgres have to do with Apache? The basics for building OLAP systems are already well known and Apache has several projects (Druid, Calcite, Arrow, Parquet, ORC, Drill) that are related to it. It's one thing to take a database and fork it towards a specific narrow focus and runtime, it's entirely different to try and put those changes back and make the original database more capable in a general environment.