OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community

Supabase has announced the availability of a non-exclusive license for U.S. Patent No. 10,325,030 to all users of OrioleDB, including proprietary forks, aligning with the OrioleDB license. In collaboration with the OrioleDB team, Supabase aims to enhance the Postgres ecosystem by developing a high-performance storage engine with a Postgres-first approach, using the Table Access Method APIs. The initiative seeks to integrate OrioleDB into Postgres itself, ensuring compatibility and alignment with its core, and ultimately aims to make OrioleDB part of the Postgres source tree, developed openly alongside Postgres. Future goals include upstreaming, standardization, and improving performance and stability, and interested parties are encouraged to participate in discussions about pluggable storage and Postgres patching via Postgres mailing lists.