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Six years after PostgreSQL shipped the table access method API, the alternative storage engine ecosystem is thriving—but messier than early predictions…
PostgreSQL 18 finally fixes the autovacuum formula that left billion-row tables waiting for 200M dead tuples.
Joins on billion-row Postgres tables crush real-time dashboards. Flatten your schema to cut shared buffer hits 70–90% and restore dashboard speed.
Snowflake's pg_lake and Databricks' Lakebase both wrap PostgreSQL for lakehouse workloads, but they're nearly opposite architectures.