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Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source? | Sep 2023

New column store alternative : https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37571974

How Query Engines Work | Sep 2023

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Idk, but I'd rather see a new iteration of PostgreSQL, similiar to Hydra[0], with a new engine become the upstream instead of a whole new database. There's a lot of experience about db operation and how to approach MVCC encoded in PostgreSQL that shouldn't be underestimated.

[0]: https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra

Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres | Aug 2023

From my initial 5 minutes of getting setup with an existing install, it's all fairly easy.

# Requirements

  - lz4
  - zstd

# Building

  git clone https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra
  cd hydra/columnar
  ./configure
  make
  make install

# Install

  CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS columnar;

The actual extension docs are at https://docs.hydra.so/concepts/using-hydra-columnar

Updates and Deletes on Columnar Postgres | Mar 2023

We're excited to announce our team has added updates and deletes to columnar storage on Postgres. This builds on our prior releases of parallelization and vectorization.

Hydra is open source - star us on Github! (https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra)

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