Show HN: Seafowl – CDN-friendly analytical database

Hey HN,

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:

- Fast: written in Rust and uses Apache DataFusion. About 5-10x faster than PostgreSQL (some benchmarks available at [1])

- Light: single 50MB binary that starts in 10ms

- Extensible: write user-defined functions in anything that compiles to WASM

- Cache-friendly: REST API designed to work well with CDNs like Cloudflare or caches like Varnish (as well as the user's browser cache).

- Demo of Seafowl providing data to an Observable notebook here [2] (press F12 and refresh the page to see caching in action)

Happy to answer any questions!

[1] https://observablehq.com/@seafowl/benchmarks

[2] https://observablehq.com/@seafowl/interactive-visualization-...