OrioleDB public beta: a Postgres storage engine for update-heavy tables

OrioleDB, an open-source storage engine for Postgres, is now in public beta on every Supabase plan. We announced the public beta at Supabase Select, alongside Multigres and DBArena. Pick OrioleDB when you create a project. It's billed the same as standard Postgres. Compute and disk resizing, read replicas, Postgres upgrades, and scheduled backups work. It's not ready for production yet. Postgres stores table rows in a format called the heap. An update doesn't change a row in place. Postgres writes a new version and leaves the old one behind as a dead tuple. Because every index points to a row’s physical location, the new version usually needs…