Postgres Rewritten in Rust: v0.2 Faster than Postgres and ClickHouse
pgrust v0.2, a Rust rewrite of Postgres, achieves remarkable speed improvements.
The release of pgrust v0.2 marks a significant performance increase, outperforming both Postgres and ClickHouse. Benchmarked on AWS Graviton4, pgrust demonstrated an 18.5% speed advantage over ClickHouse and hundreds of times faster than PostgreSQL, showcasing its innovative features like a columnar layout and a new vectorized executor.