# orioledb/orioledb

OrioleDB – building a modern cloud-native storage engine (... and solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems)

Repository: https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/orioledb
Homepage: https://orioledb.com
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: postgresql, postgresql-extension, table-access-method, orioledb, postgres, sql, database
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:05:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 77, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1739, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 76, "gap_med": 56.0, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4174, forks 184 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:38.149243+00:00)

## What it is
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

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: database, caching, compression, concurrency
- domain: databases, cloud-computing, developer-tools, performance
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, cpp
- tags: postgresql-extension, storage-engine, table-access-method, cloud-native, mvcc, undo-log, index-organized-tables, pluggable-storage, b-tree, wal, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- orioledb/orioledb (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:38.149243+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:43.486435+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:38.149243+00:00, sha bf5f2a237aab)
  - homepage: https://orioledb.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:21.044280+00:00, sha c0534ff0f973)
  - site_page: https://www.orioledb.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:21.053167+00:00, sha 14fd52ad3a04)
  - site_page: https://www.orioledb.com/docs/usage/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:21.055751+00:00, sha 4ea307b0adfd)
  - site_page: https://www.orioledb.com/docs/architecture/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:21.058101+00:00, sha 50d7b6e645b5)
  - site_page: https://www.orioledb.com/docs/contributing/code-structure (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:21.060563+00:00, sha 22680567b695)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.