Pgrust v0.2: Now faster than Postgres and Clickhouse Latest

malisper 18 points 10 comments July 30, 2026
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convolvatron

there's some great stuff in here, particularly the direct-to-binary codegen, threads instead of processes and sync batching. you must have some intuitive notion about where the performance gains come from.

westurner

Would there be an advantage to reusing SIMD-optimized libraries for this? Polars Rust is built on Arrow and packed_simd. pola-rs/polars: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars polars - Rust API docs: https://docs.pola.rs/api/rust/dev/polars/#simd lancedb's data format; Lancedb/lance works with [Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, PyArrow,]; https://github.com/lancedb/lance Narwhals' df interface (Python) https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/ substrait's portable query plans: https://substrait.io/ , https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis-substrait Arrow RecordBatch, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45495738#45546244 cargo-fuzz, TLA+

jauntywundrkind

Port in OrioleDB next please. If our wish-granting really is at such a state. https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb

jauntywundrkind

Port in OrioleDB next please. If our wish-granting really is at such a state. https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb Great submission slipped by yesterday (!) on it's beta15 and beta16 released, on a big stability push. It now passes Postgres's own test suite! https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta15-16-stability https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099108

zX41ZdbW

You should submit it to ClickBench for verification.

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