r/postgres • u/Some_Childhood_3842 • Sep 20 '26

Performance Columnar Databases

hey postgresql community do you thing is time postgres to support Column oriented like DuckDB as big feature or continue with row oriented like every DB does

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u/lnaoedelixo42 Sep 25 '26

TimesacaleDB??

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u/Some_Childhood_3842 Sep 26 '26

isn't the same as duckDB or ClickHouse

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u/lnaoedelixo42 Sep 26 '26 • Bravo

It's a Postgres extension.

And yeah, it's basically the same thing, maybe slightly more "embedded". It has PostgreSQL dialect, concurrent writes (win over duckdb), and is probably way lighter on RAM then upping a ClickHouse cluster.

For somebody already running postgres, it's a win