The article makes some convincing arguments and the benchmarks seem to corroborate their performance claims, but I don't understand the dichotomy between this proposed new storage engine (OrioleDB?) and PostgreSQL itself.
Besides the commercial motivations and wanting to profit from the innovations discussed in the article, is there any reason why this needs to be a whole new database marketed as OrioleDB versus contributing these improvements upstream?
Besides the commercial motivations and wanting to profit from the innovations discussed in the article, is there any reason why this needs to be a whole new database marketed as OrioleDB versus contributing these improvements upstream?