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wuputah

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About wuputah

CTO @ Hydra (YC W22); previously Heroku, Crunchy Data, RPI

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    Comment #41280597

    I think it will be straightforward to expose time_bucket in pg_duckdb. Feel free to open an issue for the feature.

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    Comment #40069124

    That is an incorrect and baseless accusation, we had nothing to do with "Postgres (tuned)". My commits are only in the `hydra` folder. There are no restrictions on how you set up t…

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    Comment #38470652

    > does it work with the existing postgres apt/yum repos? We only support apt for now but plan to support other package managers in the future. It works with existing Postgres apt p…

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    Comment #38467164

    In my opinion, we plan on accomplishing this by using a container; it's not quite something we have today, but this is good feedback. :) On Ubuntu/Debian, Postgres doesn't typicall…

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    Comment #37579037

    Thanks for calling these out, as these are just misunderstandings. We will certainly tweak the language around these. - Installing the extension itself does not change the default …

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    Comment #36993474

    First we added a bitmask to mark rows as deleted - these rows are filtered out on read. Then updates are implemented as deletions + inserts. We have also added vacuum functions to …

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    Comment #36993456

    of course :) drop by our Discord if there's something you'd like to contribute and want to chat about it beforehand, need help/have questions getting started, etc. https://hydra.so…

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    Comment #33990106

    Yes, Hydra Columnar and PostGIS get along just fine. We've not looked into any PostGIS-specific optimizations yet, but if users run into issues, we'll be happy to investigate.

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    Comment #33980032

    Of course, that's the power of Postgres. You can join between columnar tables or between columnar and heap (row-based) tables. The performance of joins hasn't been a specific focus…

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    Comment #33979872

    Yeah, I agree! However, ClickBench has used 500GB GP2 as the "standard" for some time, so I stuck to it for consistency. We use GP3 for our hosted service, and I did test on GP3 as…

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    Comment #33978868

    The metadata can act as a basic form of indexing (or sometimes caching, though Hydra doesn't use metadata to calculate results yet), but it's not an index in the traditional sense.…

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    Comment #33975296

    A narrow distinction, but Hydra is Postgres - we only install an extension - while Greenplum and Redshift are forks but remain Postgres-compatible (to varying degrees). I'm not up …

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    Comment #30795632

    We hope you find our new product useful and engaging! You can get started with a free 10 GB Hydra at https://hydras.io/ or read our blog post at https://hydras.io/blog/2022-03-21-a…

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    Comment #30459452

    I agree with your lead statement and argued as such, but was overruled. Last I knew and understood, Heroku Status is static pages pushed out to Fastly, with the internal admin site…

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    Comment #30458229

    Hi! Definitely reach out to us to discuss further.

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    Comment #30458201

    Certainly, I see us expanding to other cloud providers as we follow customer demand, but it will take some time. I think if you wanted to move faster and have a higher level of con…

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    Comment #30446846

    Hi, JD here, CTO at Hydra. In an HTAP scenario, local transactional data would be replicated, but your data warehouse will likely have a great amount of data that your Postgres dat…

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    Comment #30446698

    Hi, JD here, Hydra's CTO. It's still early days and we are considering open source; for now, we wanted to leave our options open, and OSS feels like a one-way door. I think you mak…

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    Comment #30445967

    Hi, JD here, Hydra's CTO. Thanks for the interest and questions! Today, queries need to be Postgres-compatible to be intelligently routed, but queries with specific query syntax or…

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    Comment #30445427

    Hydra doesn't ship data to the client in order to then do further work like aggregations -- that's the whole point of Hydra -- but that also means that you won't be able to "workar…

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    Comment #30445270

    Calcite is definitely some cool tech. I can see why it would be attractive for bigger teams, but it seems like a big lift for smaller teams. Our goal is to make it easy for devs al…

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    Comment #30444033

    Absolutely! Hydra is 100% Postgres and supports any existing Postgres-compatible tools.

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    Comment #30443764

    Hi, I'm JD, Hydra's CTO. There's no perceivable overhead to using Hydra on queries being routed to Postgres. I think you would not be able to see Hydra in the noise in a benchmark …

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    Comment #30443644

    Hi, JD here, Hydra's CTO. Thanks for the great question! You can use our manual router[1] to route queries that use a specific syntax or functions. The way this works today is you …