On: Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-mem...

[gavinray]

Perhaps I am a bit slow, but could someone else with better understanding ELI5 what benefits this provides over Postgres?

I would really appreciate it.

The only bit I really understood was:

    The system automatically parallelizes user functions

Now granted, I only understand how DBs work from a user-facing side so that might be a barrier here.

[maxmcd → gavinray]

The abstract here is helpful: http://cidrdb.org/cidr2020/papers/p29-neumann-cidr20.pdf

[_pd19 → gavinray]

Many of the innovations in DB research are for people with very large and very analytic workloads. That is not most users on HN, who often rely heavily on point updates and queries.