Highgo, a Canadian PostgreSQL consultancy with Chinese backing, blogs about Postgres internals, replication, load balancing, bulk loading, and corruption.
HN links it for PostgreSQL how-to posts. Commenters mostly discuss the company itself, noting its consultancy status and an Oracle-compatibility effort.
> It's not clear to me that it really can do that, though.
It would seem exceedingly foolhardy to put all your eggs into, what is essentially a compatibility shim layer/plugin, that may or may not actually be compatible with Oracle or all of Oracle.
The company behind it also is an unknown (to me at least) - HiGo[1].
So, IvorySQL is FOSS and free (as in beer) - but what happens if some feature doesn't actually work like advertised? Or something isn't implemented yet? Now you're paying HiGo for support instead of Oracle - although I'd trust Oracle's product a lot more personally.
> I'd ask why you are paying for any commercial DB in that case.
People pay for commercial DB's for a lot of reasons - including having someone to call at 3am when things go bad. Look at how prevalent SQL Server is - most of the deployments I've seen are because the company simply decided they will use SQL Server for everything (ie, not a technical reason).
[1] https://www.highgo.ca/
resources:
awk: the power and promis of a 40 yr old language (2021) : https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language
Gawk: Effective AWK programming https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
gawk-psql : pgsql extension of GNU awk : https://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net/pgsql/pgsql.html
gawkextlib : http://shouce.jb51.net/gawk/gawkextlib.html
gawk libraries for XML, PostgreSQL : https://osdn.net/projects/sfnet_gawkextlib/
psql : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/psql.htm
postgresql copy from program : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62254888/using-awk-and-postgresqls-copy-from-program-together
user-defined modules to postgres : https://www.highgo.ca/2019/10/01/a-guide-to-create-user-defined-extension-modules-to-postgres/
Did not find any obvious references as to who is backing this project, but it seems to be a Chinese software consultancy.
https://www.highgo.ca/
> What’s the point of doing some just for the sake of destroying other people’s business?
Apart from any potential ideological reasons related to open source, they are likely planning to support their own business by providing a compelling product.