hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
Question, does having it in pure rust, opens possibility of embedding pgrust directly into binary, making it an alternative to SQLite/turso?
🔥 Score 61.8
TurboDB: Rust-Embedded Analytic Engine
Developers struggle to bundle a full‑featured analytical database into a single binary without the overhead of external services like SQLite or Turso, while needing the speed of native‑compiled Postgres queries. TurboDB compiles a pure‑Rust, Postgres‑compatible engine with SIMD‑driven batching and operator‑fusion, delivering 300× faster analytics that can be linked directly into any Rust application.
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complaint frequency
7.5
growth rate
20
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8.7
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10.05
technical feasibility
7.5
search interest
8
Evidence Signal (2)
Raw Complaint Loghn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
> My understanding is that they used c2rust, and then told the LLM/Agents to make the code more idiomatic rust, while also using the PG test suite as a feedback mechanism.This is correct> and thus a fork, and should thus have the original license and copyright preserved)This is not correct. The Postgres license is permissive. We need to include a copy of the license (which we do in the NOTICE file[0]) but we do not need to preserve the original copyright. You can relicense the Postgres code however you want as long as you meet the requirements of the license.pgrust is a derived work of Postgre
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