Manish Jain of dgraph.io noted that building on top of Postgres or betting on Postgres seems like a necessary condition for database startups to be successful.

Manish Jain of dgraph.io noted that building on top of Postgres or betting on Postgres seems like a necessary condition for database startups to be successful. Some are commodotizing Postgres' wire format but implementing their own query and storage layers (like CockroachDB / Aurora / AlloyDB), while others are modifying parts of Postgres (like Timescale / EdgeDB / YugaByte), and others still are building atop it (Supabase). https://twitter.com/manishrjain/status/1496174276474732544 https://twitter.com/manishrjain/status/1496174276474732544