Will AWS Babelfish Succeed in Moving Developers Away from SQL Server to Postgres?

Опубликовано: 07 Август 2026
на канале: Hussein Nasser
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In AWS re-invent, Amazon announced open-sourcing Babelfish for PostgreSQL, a SQL Server-compatible end-point for PostgreSQL to make PostgreSQL fluent in understanding communication from apps written for SQL Server. Let us discuss what is this technology and whether if it's gonna really move developers away from Microsoft SQL Server to Postgres


Resources
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensour...


Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:30 Postgres vs SQLServer
5:20 What is Babelfish?
9:40 Why Babelfish May not Work
10:06 Will Babelfish Includes everything?
11:46 BabelFish is an Extra Layer
13:35 What REALLY is Babelfish?
15:00 Performance

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