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malisper/pgrust

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now faster than Postgres and Clickhouse observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/malisper/pgrust · homepage · Rust · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

67/100

  • Activity 97
  • Release rhythm 63
  • Longevity 9

Flags: young

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 135
  • days_rel: 34
  • days_push: 20
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

4714 stars · 178 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

pgrust is a full rewrite of PostgreSQL in Rust that is wire- and SQL-compatible with Postgres and passes all 46,066 tests of the Postgres regression suite. It features a vectorized push-based JIT-compiled executor, thread-based concurrency, a query scheduler, and a built-in OOM killer, but is explicitly not production ready.

Use cases

  • run a faster drop-in replacement for postgres
  • test postgres workloads on a rust-rewritten database engine
  • benchmark a database faster than postgres and clickhouse
  • try postgres in the browser via wasm
  • experiment with a jit-compiled vectorized query executor
  • avoid postgres outages from runaway queries and oom kills

When to choose

  • you want to experiment with a modern re-architecture of Postgres in Rust
  • you need Postgres wire/SQL compatibility for testing or benchmarking
  • you want to evaluate a vectorized JIT-compiled executor on Graviton4 hardware
  • you want to run Postgres-compatible queries in a browser via WebAssembly

When to avoid

  • you need a production database - the project explicitly says not to store data you care about in it
  • you rely on PostgreSQL extensions or PL/Python, PL/Perl, or PL/Tcl
  • you need stable behavior on non-Graviton4 hardware, since the JIT only targets Graviton4
  • you need long-term stability - the project is early (v0.2) with many known bugs

Facets

application · maturity experimental

database compiler concurrency databases developer-tools performance rust wasm self-hosted postgres-rewrite wire-compatible jit-compiled-executor vectorized-execution sql ai-assisted-development clickhouse-alternative linux

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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