Re:Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analy...
by zhousun on Saturday March 08, 2025 @11:07AM
(#43301221)
Thanks for the comment but you are mixing some terminologies.
The core idea of mooncake is to built upon open columnar format + substitutable vectorized engine, while natively integrate with Postgres.
So it is indeed closer to BigQuery (especially the newer bigquery with iceberg tables) than a 'standard SQL database'. It has all the nice properties of BigQuery (ObjectStore-native, ColumnStore, Vectorized execution...) and scaling is also not impossible.
The core idea of mooncake is to built upon open columnar format + substitutable vectorized engine, while natively integrate with Postgres.
So it is indeed closer to BigQuery (especially the newer bigquery with iceberg tables) than a 'standard SQL database'. It has all the nice properties of BigQuery (ObjectStore-native, ColumnStore, Vectorized execution...) and scaling is also not impossible.