Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB
Details
- External ID
- 48197390
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 39
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8174474959612278
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- timeseries database alternative
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing a high-performance PostgreSQL C/Rust extension that implements custom storage, indexing, and hypertable-like chunking requires specialized database internals expertise.
What it would actually take: Built as a PostgreSQL C or Rust (pgrx) extension hooking into Postgres query planner/executor, storage manager, and custom scan APIs. The hardest challenge is implementing efficient time-series chunking, transparent table partitioning, custom time-bucket aggregations, and transactional safety under heavy concurrent write loads. It requires deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals, C/systems programming, and distributed storage engines.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 193 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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