Someone tried. https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
replyWhy would they? Postgres is free and does an amazing job.
replyI don't know, but there are tons of "rust rewrite" of everything.
replyI wish they'd adopt, merge in, or give official blessings to versioned postgres extensions like citus and pgvector.
replywhy ? Just install the extension and use it
replyLack of the extension in the core means that a lot of vendors with managed postgres don't support it or ship very old versions.
replyAlso Postgres has enjoyed decades of debugging.
replyTo be honest I would love for someone to work on the structuring of pg_dump for example, which is entirely driven by regexes and binary structures. It’s awful and absolutely not programmable - a real shame.
replyYou can create a project on vibes, but you cannot maintain one on vibes.
replyMany recent relational databases speak the Postgres wire protocol. For wholesale replacement, pgrust is a recent, contentious contender.
replyI hope you don't believe this, PGRust has fallen far from grace. Wire protocol support is useful (other than said recommendation)
replyRemove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) (197 points, 10 days ago, 166 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50205816
I work on pgrust. We shouldn't have submitted the preview when we did: it was still in active development, and its SQL coverage was far too narrow, though there was nothing in it giving it an unfair performance advantage
replyFor the other two claims in the removal PR, we wrote scripts you can use to verify the behavior of the original 0.4-preview binary:
- Per-query kernels did not serve the benchmark queries[0]
- The preview's fast repeat LIKE queries came from a dictionary filter cache, not a cached query result[1]
Across all queries and instance sizes on ClickBench, 0.4-beta is ~7% faster overall than the 0.4-preview binary that was removed. If 0.4-preview's numbers had come from hardcoded kernels or faked results, the open-source general engine wouldn't be beating it
[0] https://pgrust.com/downloads/archive/2026-09-clickbench-snap...
[1] https://pgrust.com/downloads/archive/2026-09-clickbench-snap...