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Columnar storage extension for Postgres built as a foreign data wrapper. Check out https://github.com/citusdata/citus for a modernized columnar storage implementation built as a table access method.

36 mentions on Hacker News by 33 people: 4 stories, 32 comments · first 2014-04-03 · latest 2024-02-22

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  1. …store PostgreSQL extension exists, here are two but I think I’m missing at least another one: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra You can also connect other stores using the foreign data wrappers,…
    comment by speedgoose · 2024-02-22 · in Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget
  2. …war. If you want to reach people who can actually help, you probably want to check this link: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw/issues
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2023-06-05 · in Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
  3. Does anyone have experience with some postgres columnar store extension like https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw ?
    comment by ithkuil · 2022-12-10 · in Just use Postgres for everything
  4. That appears to be the case: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw "Important notice: Columnar storage is now part of Citus Columnar storage is now part of the Citus extension, which uses the table access method API to give a much more…
    comment by sbuttgereit · 2022-10-05 · in Pg_squeeze: An extension to fix table bloat
  5. …don't think there's anything preventing them from being parquet_fdw/cstore_fdw tables instead. [0] https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw [1] https://github.com/pacman82/odbc2parquet [2] https://github.com/citusdata/postgres_vectorization_…
    comment by mildbyte · 2022-05-05 · in Postgres and Parquet in the data lake
  6. You can implement a columnar store in Postgres. (Of course there's more to Redshift than that) https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by bdcravens · 2020-10-16 · in AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
  7. https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by merb · 2020-09-05 · in .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
  8. …[0] https://github.com/splitgraph/splitgraph/ [1] https://splitgraph.com/docs/concepts/images [2] https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by mildbyte · 2020-08-21 · in The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets
  9. …there's an extension for storing columnar data in Postgres which is implemented via this concept: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw I haven't used it myself but it's pretty cool that it's out there.
    comment by thinkpad20 · 2020-07-08 · in Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?
  10. https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by justinsaccount · 2020-03-04 · in Clickhouse Local
  11. …your data and queries across many nodes so your database can scale and your queries are fast." https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by michelpp · 2019-05-31 · in One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables
  12. …lack of native support for columnar storage (though an open source third-party extension exists: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw ) The need to manually update clustered indexes, and the fact that an exclusive lock is needed to do…
    comment by tfehring · 2018-10-18 · in PostgreSQL 11 Released
  13. …idea to sort your data on that field and load into cstore_fdw. This will help to use skip indexes. https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw#using-skip-indexes
    comment by metdos · 2017-10-12 · in Columnar Store for Analytics with Postgres
  14. …No. We've some jsonb but very little. We know what our data look like, so we don't have to. [0] https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by doh · 2017-10-05 · in PostgreSQL 10 Released
  15. There is the cstore foreign data wrapper, https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw , but it is still an extension. Hopefully it will go into mainline at some point.
    comment by tnndk · 2017-09-15 · in Migrating from RethinkDB to Postgres – An Experience Report
  16. …the postgres query planning, connection management and other infrastructure on top, perhaps? [0] https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by makmanalp · 2017-04-04 · in Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL
  17. …For example, Citus Data provides a column store for Postgres via the fdw api. https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by wmfiv · 2016-09-29 · in PostgreSQL 9.6 Released
  18. Would be cool if this included cstore_fdw as well ( https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw ).
    comment by netshade · 2016-04-21 · in Introducing Citus Cloud
  19. Copying from https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw#usage To load or append data into a cstore table, you have two options: You can use the COPY command to load or append data from a file, a program, or STDIN. You can use the INSERT INTO…
    comment by lfittl · 2016-03-24 · in Citus Unforks from PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source
  20. …on the nature of your project, you might consider a column store engine for postgres, such as https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by Cieplak · 2015-08-16 · in “Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5
  21. …other technologies for helping postgres with these workloads as well: a column-store approach like https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw , or the recent work on parallel sequential scans in Postgres core (…
    comment by nierman · 2015-05-25 · in Vitesse X – A PostgreSQL extension module for faster queries
  22. …row inserts.". Just "COPY TO ..." or "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..." is available it seems. (source https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw )
    comment by mirekrusin · 2015-05-05 · in Compressing PostgreSQL JSONB data 12x using cstore_fdw
  23. https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw If you haven't found it already.
    comment by jeffdavis · 2015-05-05 · in Compressing PostgreSQL JSONB data 12x using cstore_fdw
  24. The best resource is the github page: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw There's also a video from SFPUG last year, though it's not great quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT34i82o99w
    comment by mslot · 2015-05-05 · in Compressing PostgreSQL JSONB data 12x using cstore_fdw
  25. …data formats: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers Alternate storage types: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by bsg75 · 2015-03-18 · in PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers
  26. …fan of Citus Data. Their column store for postgres is really useful for building data warehouses: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by Cieplak · 2014-12-04 · in Pg_shard – PostgreSQL extension to scale out real-time reads and writes
  27. It's Apache V2, which is a lot better than GPL for many of us. https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw/blob/master/LICENSE They're really nice talented people, and a great example of a company giving back to the community.
    comment by norkakn · 2014-10-31 · in Making PostgreSQL Scale Hadoop-style: Benchmark Numbers
  28. See also https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
    comment by bsg75 · 2014-09-22 · in InfiniDB goes out of business
  29. …releases based on your comments. If you have any requests, please give us your feedback here: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw/issues For performance and compression related questions, we'd also love to hear more from you and help…
    comment by ozgune · 2014-08-15 · in My wish list for Postgres 9.5
  30. …made it a key component of their MPP Postgres offering. I don't work there. I'm just a fan. [1] https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw [2] http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.0.0.2/ds...
    comment by bjt · 2014-06-19 · in Moving product recommendations from Hadoop to Redshift saves us time and money
  31. …thorny, to say the least (datetime and decimal as primitives, probably many of the structured types too). - github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw/blob/master/cstore.proto - github.com/apache/hive/blob/trunk/ql/src/protobuf/org/apache/hadoop/hive/…
    comment by rusanu · 2014-04-04 · in PostgreSQL Columnar Store for Analytic Workloads
  32. …excited to open source our columnar store extension for PostgreSQL and share it with the community https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by aaronblohowiak · 2014-04-03 · in PostgreSQL Columnar Store for Analytic Workloads