I am writing a Python based SQL query engine: https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka. My personal goal is to get Andy Pavlo to mention it in his year-end blogs.

I agree with many of the points made in the blog by Andy. Writing a distributed database has become way easier due to open source components like Ray, Arrow, Velox, DuckDB, SQLGlot etc.

I personally believe we will see a switch from JVM based technologies to Rust/C based with Python wrapper