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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

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Re: Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

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Post by insanitybit » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC

ForHackernews wrote: post #180

insanitybit wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. How would they even evaluate the software? This only works in theory.

Selling commercial database software to big enterprises seems to work in practice for Oracle.

So the path for open source databases is to have a massive sales team, customer support, POC contracts, etc?

Re: Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

#182

Post by ForHackernews » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

insanitybit wrote: post #181

ForHackernews wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Selling commercial database software to big enterprises seems to work in practice for Oracle.

So the path for open source databases is to have a massive sales team, customer support, POC contracts, etc?

One path for developers who don't want to make a charitable donation to their friendly Fortune 500 is to pick a free software license unpalatable to corporate lawyers and then charge corpos for a commercial dual-license.

You are free to volunteer your time to Amazon, no one is stopping you. They would probably accept cash donations as well.

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