We announced the acquisition of OrioleDB over a year ago. Since then, we have been working on cleaning up the legal structure and finalizing the asset transfers. We have now wrapped up all legal activities, and we fully own US Patent 10,325,030 (“Durable multiversion B+-tree”).
Today, Supabase is explicitly making available a non-exclusive license of U.S. Patent No. 10,325,030 to all OrioleDB users (including proprietary forks) in accordance with the OrioleDB license.
OrioleDB is a storage extension for Postgres which uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing storage engine. OrioleDB is built to take advantage of modern hardware and cloud infrastructure, providing better performance and scalability for Postgres workloads.
OrioleDB benchmarks show that it is around 5.5x faster than Heap (TPC-C, 500 warehouses):
Supabase are working with the OrioleDB team to develop a high-performance storage engine for Postgres and push the state of the art with a Postgres-first mindset.
