I think the emphasis should be on the fact that Postgres now has a free and open source columnar store. For many years (probably decades) there have been companies that have developed "big data"/analytics system with Postgres as the base, but have not contributed back to the Postgres ecosystem.
While this new columnar store is not as speedy as ones that have been around since the early 2000s, it does give a platform for CitusData and other companies to build on and share solutions.
Having a DB that can hold both the transactional data and data for fast analytical purposes is very advantageous as you have less moving parts and much less ETL work.
What I am looking forward to now is a few start ups similar to CitusData that solve different "Big Data" problems and for them to work together to disrupt the multi-billion dollar datawarehouse/analytics vendors.
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I think the emphasis should be on the fact that Postgres now has a free and open source columnar store. For many years (probably decades) there have been companies that have developed "big data"/analytics system with Postgres as the base, but have not contributed back to the Postgres ecosystem.
While this new columnar store is not as speedy as ones that have been around since the early 2000s, it does give a platform for CitusData and other companies to build on and share solutions.
Having a DB that can hold both the transactional data and data for fast analytical purposes is very advantageous as you have less moving parts and much less ETL work.
What I am looking forward to now is a few start ups similar to CitusData that solve different "Big Data" problems and for them to work together to disrupt the multi-billion dollar datawarehouse/analytics vendors.