A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL's weaknesses as an analytics database.
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The project, which is under the permissive MIT license, plans to bring the popular OLAP system DuckDB in the process to PostgreSQL, which has been named the most popular database among developers since 2023.
While the popularity of PostgreSQL has grown steadily over the past 28 years, attributed to its robust and extensible design, developers have struggled to build analytical systems based on the database as effectively as they support transactions.
An open source PostgreSQL extension that embeds DuckDB's analytics engine aims to help solve the problem.
