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re: columnar - https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra/tree/main/columnar

a much updated fork of citus' columnar using Postgres tableam.

re: duckdb handling storage - https://github.com/hydradatabase/pg_quack/tree/branch-0.0.1

an earlier implementation

Hey Jerry, it's nice to see you here :) Truth is, the work you guys did at Hydra with the fork of Citus columnar is the more Postgres-idiomatic analytics engine in Postgres. It's a shame it was abandoned.

> It's a shame it was abandoned.

I'm not sure that saying it's abandoned is quite accurate. looking at it from a (now outside) lens, I see it as more of a hard engineering project.

I still use columnar: it's very mature at this point, but any further (large) improvements would require a lot larger engineering efforts.

It seems like the team behind it is now working on pg_duckdb, though, which likely will supersede Citus columnar eventually? Is that not the goal with it?

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