We're very excited about this release, over 4 years in the making. Over that time we adopted, contributed to, and helped lead parts of what we're calling the FDAP stack: Apache Arrow Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet.

We wrote and contributed the Rust object store crate used in this stack and by many others to the ASF.

This release is based on a "diskless" architecture that uses object storage for all durability. With DataFusion it has a columnar, vectorized, standards compliant SQL query engine. We also built support for InfluxQL on top of it.

The other big thing we brought in is an embedded Python VM using PyO3 and Python Build Standalone. This makes it possible to do data collection, ETL, monitoring, alerting, and all kinds of tasks inside the database at the point of collection.

Happy to answer any questions about the big project, what's next or anything time series related.