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

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD(malisper.me)

33 points by poly2it 4 hours ago | 8 comments

pgrust seems to have good momentum. AGPL is an odd license for a non web project. Postgres is MIT-like, and that drove it's adoption.

Have pgrust folks reconsidered this? Else, IMO we can have an independant rust port of pgrust, which can be MIT, which will garner more attention.

malisper 33 seconds ago | |

Author here. At least for databases, AGPL (or stricter) has become standard. The issue is it's so easy for megacorps (Amazon, Google, etc) to take a permissively licensed product and monetize it at the expense of the original standard.

For instance, Mongo, Cockroach, and Materialize have all gone source available. We picked AGPL because it's the best balance between open source and prevents Amazon from just repackaging it and selling it.

If AGPL is an issue for anyone, we would be happy to dual-license under a commercial license.

appplication 43 minutes ago | |

Oh bummer. I was really excited about pgrust but AGPL is a dealbreaker. Not for me personally, but it will never see wide adoption because it’s a banned license in most corporate environments. Lack of path to wide adoption means it’s dead in the water.

It’s weird because those who actually care about optimized pg gains are most likely large corporate customers. Why make a product targeting them and license it in such a way they’ll never use it?

This also hard blocks upstreaming any beneficial features into core Postgres.

ognarb 1 hour ago | |

2 commits in the repo both generated by claude. This is AI slop, I wonder where you see good momentum?

Whitespace 1 hour ago | | |

main indeed has two commits, but it clearly states the location of the rest of the commits, so I wouldn't be critical of main itself.

  hey claude, do a breakthrough
  You can find the actual git history at the v0.2 github tag.
  
  Co-Authored-By: Fable <noreply@anthropic.com>

Now we see https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/tree/v0.2 has almost 6000 commits in it, with the very first one on 2026-07-02. That's a lot of token momentum!

It's easy to claim AI slop nowadays, but you should still mistrust-but-verify.

esafak 1 hour ago | | |

4K stargazers in a week.

busterarm 49 minutes ago | |

Everything around Rust is political, so the license choices are also about political statement.

johnsonjo 36 minutes ago | | |

Most official Rust projects are dual MIT/Apache licensed by convention [1] (and most Rust libraries from third parties I've seen that are open source MIT follow the MIT/Apache dual license), so seems like this library shouldn't just be AGPL for a typical political choice of a Rustacean?

[1]: https://rust-lang.org/policies/licenses/