I wonder how this approach: https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
compares to this one: https://github.com/knizhnik/imcs From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dorian Hoxha Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 12:58 PM To: PostgreSql-general Subject: [GENERAL] New OpenSource columnstore from CitusData for Postgresql Link to hackernews which also has some comments from the devs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523950 Very interesting: They use foreign data tables as an abstraction to separate the storage layer from the rest of the database.