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The page is light on details, what is this exactly? A fork of Postgres, or something you run on top to orchestrate clustering?



I know it's expected of TheReg, but the opening lines made me laugh: "TransLattice gobbles StormDB upstart for Postgres threesome.

Lashes PostgreSQL, -R, and Postgres-XC together for unholy database tryst"


Postgres-R! I knew about Postgres-R, but i thought it was a research project which had never really gone anywhere. I am highly intrigued to learn that it is still in play. From what i remember, there were some terrifically clever ideas about multi-master databases at the heart of it. I don't think there's anything else quite like it in the open source world.


Postgres-R bits have not made their way into Postgres-XL, but some parts of Postgres-XC have. Some XC code is merged in to make future merging into Postgres-XL easier, even parts that are not used.

Some parts of Postgres-R are in the TransLattice Elastic Database (TED), but that is a proprietary closed source product, sorry. (I work for TransLattice, who also open sourced Postgres-XL.)


Ah, i see. It's a shame that no descendant of Postgres-R is open source, but i'm still pleased to hear that there is one, even if it's proprietary. Thanks for the information.


I would think of it more as a branch. A big branch.

The intent is to always merge in upstream from PostgreSQL.

Anyway, you do not run on top of it, changes have been made deep in the bowels of PostgreSQL.




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