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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 308 posts.
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Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7
In 2010, Google engineers Daniel Peng & Frank Dabek published Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications , which described Percolator: a Google-internal database for random access transactional workloads where low latencies are not required. Percolator uses a global…
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Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0
Radar 2.0 improves machine learning performance and reduces fraud by up to an additional 25%.
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Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
An interview covering our experience running PostgreSQL on on-premises Kubernetes: challenges, open source and commercial tools, and alternatives for stateful apps.
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S3 Express Is All You Need
The future of modern data infrastructure is object storage.
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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible
CockroachDB is PostgreSQL compatible in order to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge.
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On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
It’s pretty clear to computer science geeks that Directed Edge is supposed to be doing groovy things with graphs. In fact our recommendation engine, and some of the things that are unique about our approach to recommendations, are built on our super-fast graph database. When we went live yesterday with the latest…
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Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientDB, Neo4j and ArangoDB
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
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Apache Arrow Flight SQL: Accelerating Database Access
This post introduces Arrow Flight SQL, a protocol for interacting with SQL databases over Arrow Flight. We have been working on this protocol over the last six months, and are looking for feedback, interested contributors, and early adopters.
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Moving all your data, 9TB edition
At GitLab B.V. we are working on an infrastructure upgrade to give more CPU power and storage space to GitLab.com. Learn more here!
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The Empty Promise of Data Moats
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses. So of course, we constantly hear about the combination of the two: “data…
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Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots
Improving connection scalability in Postgres 14. From the neat to the gritty: snapshot scalability edition.
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It’s fine, Rewind: Revert a migration without losing data
Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.
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Finding MongoDB instances without any authentication
I would like to take a moment to discuss databases. Most people use Shodan to find devices that have web servers, but for a few years now I've also been crawling the Internet for various database software. I usually mention this during my talks and I've tried to raise awareness
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Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport
This post introduces Arrow Flight, a framework for building high performance data services. We have been building Flight over the last 18 months and are looking for developers and users to get involved.
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Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization
InfluxDB clustering is key for high availability and monetization. Clustering and high availability functionality will be available as part of our Influx Enterprise offering. Get a crash course on this topic and also read the newer version as well as u...
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CockroachDB's Consistency Model
CockroachDB's consistency model fits somewhere between serializability and linerarizability. We're proposing a new marketing phrase for CRDB's guarantees: no stale reads.
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A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch
ไลฟ์สไตล์ ธุรกิจ กีฬา ไอที บันเทิง แม่และเด็ก ความรู้รอบตัว รถยนต์ สัตว์เลี้ยง อสังหาริมทรัพย์ กิน-เที่ยว การเงินและการลงทุน สุขภาพ การศึกษา บ้านและสวน
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Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis
Maximize the performance of your hardware with memory access amortization
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Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres
Why it’s important to improve Postgres connection scalability, plus an analysis on the limits of connection scalability today.
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ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search
Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using queries that r...
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DeWitt Clause, or can you benchmark %database% and get away with it
The DeWitt clause lets database vendors forbid publishing benchmarks. What the clause is, which vendors still use it, and what you can legally publish.
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Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events
Let’s talk about the stream. The SoundCloud stream represents stuff that’s relevant to you primarily via your social graph, arranged in time order, newest-first. The atom of that data model, an event, is a simple enough thing. Timestamp User who did the thing Identifier of the thing that was done For example, At…
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Semantic Search with SQLite
txtai is an all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows
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Amazon DynamoDB On Demand
January 31, 2025: Post updated to clarify the reduced on-demand pricing and workloads recommendations. Just a few years ago, creating a database that could support your business at any scale while providing consistent low latency was a daunting task. That changed for me in 2012 while reading Werner Vogels’ blog post…