Hey HN,<p>A new project from us at Splitgraph: Seafowl, a database that's optimized for Web applications running analytical SQL queries straight from the user's browser. Used to power interactive visualizations and dashboards. Features:<p>- Fast: written in Rust and uses Apache DataFusion. About 5-10x faster than PostgreSQL (some benchmarks available at [1])<p>- Light: single 50MB binary that starts in 10ms<p>- Extensible: write user-defined functions in anything that compiles to WASM<p>- Cache-friendly: REST API designed to work well with CDNs like Cloudflare or caches like Varnish (as well as the user's browser cache).<p>- Demo of Seafowl providing data to an Observable notebook here [2] (press F12 and refresh the page to see caching in action)<p>Happy to answer any questions!<p>[1] <a href="https://observablehq.com/@seafowl/benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https://observablehq.com/@seafowl/benchmarks</a><p>[2] <a href="https://observablehq.com/@seafowl/interactive-visualization-demo" rel="nofollow">https://observablehq.com/@seafowl/interactive-visualization-...</a>