Show HN: Pg_mooncake – Delta/Iceberg columnstore tables in Postgres
Hello HN, one of the founders of Mooncake Labs here. Today, we are launching pg_mooncake, an extension that brings columnstore tables with DuckDB execution to Postgres. Expect analytical performance akin to DuckDB on Parquet (clickbench results to come soon). You can run transactional updates, deletes, inserts on these tables, and they're written as Delta Lake tables (and soon Iceberg) to your object store (S3, etc.). pg_mooncake is live on Neon today. Let us know what you think. It'll be coming to Supabase shortly, and other Postgres providers in the future. Why another postgres analytics extension? We actually leverage pg_duckdb and DuckDB as our execution engine — this is how we were able to ship the extension in just 60 days. We wrote about this with the DuckDB team: https://motherduck.com/blog/pg-mooncake-columnstore/ pg_mooncake shines in two scen
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Hello HN, one of the founders of Mooncake Labs here. Today, we are launching pg_mooncake, an extension that brings columnstore tables with DuckDB execution to Postgres. Expect analytical performance akin to DuckDB on Parquet (clickbench results to come soon). You can run transact
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- sunzhousz
- Ended
- 2024
- Source
- hackernews