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A Rust rewrite of Postgres that ditches the legacy process-per-connection model, adopts threads and direct-to-binary codegen, and integrates Arrow/SIMD. The result: a single database that outperforms both Postgres and ClickHouse. The language is just the enabler—the real breakthrough is architectural.
pg_stat_ch bypasses the bloated OpenTelemetry pipeline to push Postgres metrics directly into ClickHouse. It sacrifices interoperability for raw speed, proving that sometimes the best architecture is the one with the fewest moving parts.
Engineering leaders are bleeding budgets on observability platforms that charge per gigabyte of ingested data, forcing them to sample and blind themselves to production issues. But ClickHouse’s columnar architecture commoditizes the storage and query layer, making those pricing models obsolete. The observability war is no longer about features — it’s about who owns the database engine, and open-source has already won.