We ran this experiment Vs influx some time ago for ingestion here https://medium.com/questdb/speeding-up-influx-line-protocol-...
In terms of queries, see our previous post on HN to get a sense https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22803504
In terms of queries, see our previous post on HN to get a sense https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22803504
To manipulate data we support "add" and "delete" column on the fly. We can also add column replace and type change if needed. This is pretty easy to do.
PostgreSQL wire is in beta. It works with JDBC driver and we will add metadata support quite soon.