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I did due-diligence on Builder.AI for a venture firm I was interning at (circa 2019). It was extremely apparent (Glassdoor, talking to any employee) it was complete BS. When I say …

totally agreed on 3. You're also missing the challenges of dealing with updates/deletes; and managing the many small files. CDC from OLTP to Iceberg is extremely non-trivial.

yep exactly. we can wait for replay LSN. So you're only reading once all writes to OLTP are complete.

great point. with pg_mooncake v0.2 (launching in ~couple weeks), you'll be able to get a columnar copy of your Postgres that's always synced ( Keep your write path unchanged, and k…

yes you can. Even if the columnar tables are in the read replica. you'll be able to do joins with your OLTP tables

exactly. we take the CDC output / logical decoding from your OLTP tables and write into a columnar format with We had to design this columnstore to be 'operational' so it can keep …

great blog. It seems like you might benefit from columnar storage in Postgres for that slow query that took ~20seconds. It's interesting that people typically think of columnstores…

Even more so after Neon + Databricks.

it was a couple things. 1. It's really really hard to replace anyone's OLTP. 2. OLTP and OLAP are owned by such different teams. Who do you make your champion? 3. The modern HTAP d…