Elvis Pranskevichus

@elprans

Engineering Python @Vercel (prev co-founder and CTO @geldata)

San Francisco

Joined April 2009

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Elvis Pranskevichus
@elprans
Dec 2, 2025
Excited to share that Gel Data has been acquired by Vercel! We are joining a company that built what is arguably the best JavaScript platform in the world, and now our team, Yury and I get to help do the same for Python. Our team's expertise in DX, cloud platforms, and the
Gel joins Vercel | Gel Blog
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Elvis Pranskevichus
@elprans
Feb 25, 2025
We're cooking!
Gel
@geldata
Feb 25, 2025
Hey there! EdgeDB is now Gel 👋 6.0 Launch week kicks off today with big news - EdgeDB is now Gel! New name, the same awesome PostgreSQL data platform you love. Read more in the thread 👇
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Elvis Pranskevichus
@elprans
Jun 11, 2024
Never bet against Postgres
TimescaleDB (by Tiger Data)
@TimescaleDB
Jun 11, 2024
PostgreSQL and pgvector: Now Faster than Pinecone, 75% cheaper, 100% open-source. Introducing pgvectorscale, an open-source PostgreSQL extension that builds on pgvector, enabling greater performance and scalability. Here’s how pgvectorscale helps pgvector outperform specialized
Elvis Pranskevichus
@elprans
Oct 29, 2023
That's exactly why graph-relational is a (small) extension of the relational model, not a replacement. Likewise, EdgeQL is SQL++, and not an entirely unrelated language conceptually. BTW, EdgeDB supports SQL also (in read-only mode for now).
Franck Pachot
@FranckPachot
Oct 28, 2023
Replying to @swyx @1st1 and @edgedatabase
EdgeDB is great but all companies who said their API will replace the old dying SQL realized their mistake. DB implementation evolves but Relational and SQL are still there. I compare that to maths and physics. Physics explores new spaces but still based on same math abstraction
Elvis Pranskevichus
@elprans
Feb 21, 2022
Get it while it's hot!
Gel
@geldata
Feb 21, 2022
We're working hard on making EdgeDB Cloud ⛅️ happen. Join the waitlist here edgedb.com/p/cloud-waitli…!