orioledb/orioledb

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

OrioleDB is a cloud-native storage engine for PostgreSQL implemented as an extension using the table access method API. It offers improved scalability, reduced bloat and maintenance, page-level compression, and a row-level WAL designed for future distributed replication.

Use cases

• speed up postgresql on many-core servers
• reduce table bloat and vacuum overhead in postgres
• compress postgres tables to cut storage costs
• replace postgres default storage engine with a modern one
• prepare postgres for active-active multimaster replication
• avoid transaction id wraparound problems
• run high-throughput OLTP workloads on postgres

When to choose

• you need higher read/write throughput than default PostgreSQL storage
• you want less VACUUM maintenance and bloat
• you want page-level compression to reduce storage costs
• you're building cloud-native or future distributed PostgreSQL deployments

When to avoid

• you need a fully supported, patch-free PostgreSQL installation
• your workload depends on extensions or features incompatible with OrioleDB
• you need mature multimaster replication today
• you can't run a patched PostgreSQL or the provided Docker image

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database caching compression concurrency databases cloud-computing developer-tools performance self-hosted cloud cpp postgresql-extension storage-engine table-access-method cloud-native mvcc undo-log index-organized-tables pluggable-storage b-tree wal linux docker

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