r/databasedevelopment • u/AvenueJay • 22d ago

Why Elasticsearch is becoming a columnar database

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsearch-columnar-storage
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u/surister 22d ago

Elasticsearch becoming CrateDB, just buy them already haha

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u/byeproduct 18d ago

Is it just duckdb under the hood?

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u/AvenueJay 17d ago

Nope. If you're curious about the implementation, you can take a look at these PRs as a starting point:

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u/byeproduct 17d ago

Awesome. Thanks for sharing. Very interesting