Today we are making the
@orioledb Patent freely available to the Postgres community
Oriole is a storage extension for Postgres which uses Postgres' pluggable storage system. It's a drop-in replacement for Postgres' existing storage engine (Heap).
Our north star is to upstream Oriole to be part of the Postgres source tree, developed and maintained in the open alongside the rest of Postgres (if the community want it!)
We announced the acquisition of Oriole over a year ago. Since then, we have been working on cleaning up the legal structure and finalizing the asset transfers.
We have wrapped up all legal activities, and we fully own US Patent 10,325,030 (“Durable multiversion B+-tree”).
@supabase is making this Patent explicitly available to all Oriole users (including proprietary forks) in accordance with the open source license.
Oriole benchmarks show that it is around 5.5x faster than the default storage engine (Heap):