That's something I eventually want to fix. The challenge is the storage format is so integral to Postgres that it's going to be a huge PITA to come up with a novel design.

Right now OrioleDB is in beta. Once that becomes production ready, I'll evaluate incorporating it into pgrust.

For Ben Dicken, he has seen the project: https://x.com/BenjDicken/status/2074512043462603236. We're still working on all the novel features so I don't think it meets his bar quite yet.