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There are many Postgres forks for OLAP workloads, such as: - Greenplum; - Citus with cstore_fdw; - IMCS (Konstantin Knizhnik); - Hydra; - AlloyDB; For exa

• philippemnoel 3y ago
  That's right! Greenplum is still active, but falling off. We see pg_analytics as the next-generation Citus columnar, with much better performance and integration into the wider data ecosystem via Delta Lake, and eventually Iceberg
  • chrisjc 3y ago
    I've been scanning through the comments looking for the opportunity to ask, while not seeming critical... why start with Delta Lake instead of Iceberg? I imagine it might have had something to do with timing and the state of Iceberg at the time you started this effort?
    • philippemnoel 3y ago
      You're exactly right. There is a mature project called delta-rs which we use. The Iceberg equivalent, iceberg-rs, is still very young. We are planning to contribute to it and eventually add support for Iceberg