OrioleDB public beta: a Postgres storage engine for update-heavy tables
Summary
Supabase announces OrioleDB public beta, a Postgres storage engine that uses an undo-log approach, 64-bit transaction IDs, and index-organized tables to reduce bloat and boost throughput on update-heavy workloads. The post explains OrioleDB’s architecture, shares benchmark results against heap storage, and provides steps to get started in a Supabase project.