idx VS hypopg

Compare idx vs hypopg and see what are their differences.

idx

maps, sets and vectors with on-demand secondary indexes. (by wotbrew)
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idx hypopg
1 6
78 1,239
- 13.1%
0.0 5.0
over 3 years ago 8 days ago
Clojure C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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idx

Posts with mentions or reviews of idx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-17.

hypopg

Posts with mentions or reviews of hypopg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.
  • Show HN: PostgreSQL Index Advisor
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2024
    It works particularly well with pg_stat_statements[0] which tracks execution statistics of all SQL statements executed on your Postgres database.

    It leans heavily on HypoPG[1], an excellent extension to determine if PostgreSQL will use a given index without spending resources to create them.

    [0] pg_stat_statements: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.htm...

    [1] https://github.com/HypoPG/hypopg

  • YugabyteDB hypopg: hypothetical indexes
    1 project | dev.to | 4 Nov 2022
    This is an introduction to the hypopg PostgreSQL extension for YugabyteDB 2.15.3.0. Hypopg allows the creation of hypothetical indexes, so indexes that do not really exist. This means this allows you to see what an index would do if it were created, without it actually being created, and therefore not influencing anything on the database. YugabyteDB 2.15.3.0 is a preview version of the YugabyteDB database.
  • The SQLite Index Suggester
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2022
  • Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2022
    There's a lot of good ecosystem stuff around this:

    https://github.com/HypoPG/hypopg

    HypoPG is a PostgreSQL extension adding support for hypothetical indexes.

    An hypothetical -- or virtual -- index is an index that doesn't really exists, and thus doesn't cost CPU, disk or any resource to create. They're useful to know if specific indexes can increase performance for problematic queries, since you can know if PostgreSQL will use these indexes or not without having to spend resources to create them.

    With one approach to using it here: https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/22/automatic-index-reco...

  • Postgres Indexes for Newbies
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2022
  • PostgreSQL Explain Output Explained
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing idx and hypopg you can also consider the following projects:

treap - :leaves: :deciduous_tree: :fallen_leaf: Efficient implementation of the implicit treap data structure

pev2 - Postgres Explain Visualizer 2

staticvec - Implements a fixed-capacity stack-allocated Vec alternative backed by an array, using const generics.

ruby-pg - A PostgreSQL client library for Ruby