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  • pg_mooncake 0.3.0: First PGSTY Release with DuckDB 2.0, pgrx 0.19.3, and PostgreSQL 14–18 Support

    By Ruohang Feng In Release Notes 556 words 3 min

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    pg_mooncake 0.3.0: First PGSTY Release with DuckDB 2.0, pgrx 0.19.3, and PostgreSQL 14–18 Support

    pg_mooncake 0.3.0 — released alongside duckdb_mooncake v0.0.2 and moonlink v0.0.1 — is the first release of the Mooncake real-time analytics suite maintained by PGSTY: pgsty/pg_mooncake v0.3.0 (MIT) pgsty/duckdb_mooncake v0.0.2 (MIT) pgsty/moonlink …

    pg_mooncake 0.3.0 — released alongside duckdb_mooncake v0.0.2 and moonlink v0.0.1 — is the first release of the Mooncake real-time analytics suite maintained by PGSTY: pgsty/pg_mooncake v0.3.0 (MIT) pgsty/duckdb_mooncake v0.0.2 (MIT) pgsty/moonlink …

  • Mooncake: a real-time storage engine for Apache Iceberg

    By Mooncake Labs, Zhou Sun, Cheng Chen, Pranav Aurora In Engineering 1145 words 6 min

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    Mooncake: a real-time storage engine for Apache Iceberg

    This technical overview assumes familiarity with Apache Iceberg, an open table format for analytical datasets. Iceberg is part of the general “Lakehouse” movement, where users: Store large datasets using open file formats (Parquet + Metadata) in …

    This technical overview assumes familiarity with Apache Iceberg, an open table format for analytical datasets. Iceberg is part of the general “Lakehouse” movement, where users: Store large datasets using open file formats (Parquet + Metadata) in …

  • No, Iceberg won’t fix your data stack.

    By Zhou Sun In Engineering 1164 words 6 min

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    No, Iceberg won’t fix your data stack.

    Life is expectations vs reality. Here is one for Apache Iceberg – a favorite amongst the data community. Expectations: Iceberg is the solution to all my data pains See, the core of Iceberg is pretty neat: Keep all data in object storage in open file …

    Life is expectations vs reality. Here is one for Apache Iceberg – a favorite amongst the data community. Expectations: Iceberg is the solution to all my data pains See, the core of Iceberg is pretty neat: Keep all data in object storage in open file …

  • but, my Postgres (+ lakehouse) is free

    By Zhou Sun In Engineering 707 words 4 min

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    but, my Postgres (+ lakehouse) is free

    Disclaimer: Your Postgres and Lakehouse are free and open too. You don’t need to be (or spend like) a giant to use them. Why Postgres + Lakehouse? Reason #1: If you believe in AI, this is the agent stack Agents need memory. Both working memory and …

    Disclaimer: Your Postgres and Lakehouse are free and open too. You don’t need to be (or spend like) a giant to use them. Why Postgres + Lakehouse? Reason #1: If you believe in AI, this is the agent stack Agents need memory. Both working memory and …

  • pg_mooncake v0.2: what we're cooking

    By Pranav Aurora In Release Notes 543 words 3 min

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    pg_mooncake v0.2: what we're cooking

    With v0.1, we proved that Postgres can deliver great analytics performance. Our approach combined two key pieces—DuckDB vectorized engine and a columnstore table—making pg_mooncake the only extension in Postgres that integrates both. The results …

    With v0.1, we proved that Postgres can deliver great analytics performance. Our approach combined two key pieces—DuckDB vectorized engine and a columnstore table—making pg_mooncake the only extension in Postgres that integrates both. The results …

  • wth are S3 tables

    By Zhou Sun In Engineering 507 words 3 min

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    wth are S3 tables

    Amazon announced table buckets during re:Invent last year. An S3 bucket that’s also a table? What does that mean? TL;DR: S3 tables allow Iceberg tables to exist without a catalog. Let me explain. Iceberg vs Delta Lake What? I thought Iceberg and …

    Amazon announced table buckets during re:Invent last year. An S3 bucket that’s also a table? What does that mean? TL;DR: S3 tables allow Iceberg tables to exist without a catalog. Let me explain. Iceberg vs Delta Lake What? I thought Iceberg and …

  • pg_mooncake: Fast Analytics in Postgres with Columnstore Tables and DuckDB

    By Cheng Chen In Engineering 798 words 4 min

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    pg_mooncake: Fast Analytics in Postgres with Columnstore Tables and DuckDB

    pg_mooncake brings columnstore tables with DuckDB execution to Postgres for fast analytics. It supports transactional inserts, updates, and deletes, just like regular Postgres tables. Data is written with Delta Lake (and Apache Iceberg in v0.2+) …

    pg_mooncake brings columnstore tables with DuckDB execution to Postgres for fast analytics. It supports transactional inserts, updates, and deletes, just like regular Postgres tables. Data is written with Delta Lake (and Apache Iceberg in v0.2+) …

  • Reflections from the Iceberg Meetup

    By Zhou Sun In Engineering 588 words 3 min

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    Reflections from the Iceberg Meetup

    Last month, I spoke at the Iceberg meetup at Snowflake HQ. Public speaking has never been my favorite, and knowing Snowflake CEO Sridhar and Tabular CEO Ryan were in the audience did not help. It was day 18 of starting Mooncake Labs, and I spoke …

    Last month, I spoke at the Iceberg meetup at Snowflake HQ. Public speaking has never been my favorite, and knowing Snowflake CEO Sridhar and Tabular CEO Ryan were in the audience did not help. It was day 18 of starting Mooncake Labs, and I spoke …

  • Things we learnt

    By Pranav Aurora In Engineering 446 words 3 min

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    Things we learnt

    The title should really be “Things we learnt, the hard way”. As we start this new journey, we spent some time thinking about the axioms of data today. These are things we (or no one for that matter) can dispute. 1. If Postgres can do it, Postgres …

    The title should really be “Things we learnt, the hard way”. As we start this new journey, we spent some time thinking about the axioms of data today. These are things we (or no one for that matter) can dispute. 1. If Postgres can do it, Postgres …