Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 308 posts.
Just two years ago (it seems like yesterday), I introduced you to Amazon Aurora in my post Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS. In that post I told you how the RDS team took a fresh, unconstrained look at the relational database model and explained how they built a…
“What is the relationship like between your team and the data scientists?” This is, without a doubt, the question I’m most frequently asked when conducting i...
At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.
The PostgreSQL Core Team and the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada (PGCAC) wish to provide clarification on the ownership and …
There’s a widespread attack on insecure MongoDB installs that has resulted in over 28,000 databases being held ransom. This post explains the hack, how to protect yourself and what can we learn from it.
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
Possibly one of the biggest hurdles that stands in the way of fostering innovation and discovering newer and better techniques of doing old things is the ease with which developers and designers to…
New BigQuery pricing editions and autoscaling let you choose the right price-performance for your workloads, and pay for only what you use.
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
TigerBeetle is an Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) database built for double-entry accounting with a strong emphasis on safety and speed. It builds on the Viewstamped Replication (VR) consensus protocol to offer Strong Serializable consistency. Unlike general-purpose databases, TigerBeetle stores only accounts…
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
LLMs excel at text generation but fail at precise document extraction due to nondeterminism. | Pulse AI
A key part of running a reliable database as a service is ensuring you have a good plan for disaster recovery. This post introduces WAL-G, the successor to WAL-E for Postgres, a complete rewrite of WAL-E that provides the same functionality plus 4x faster restores on recovery.
DuckDB-Wasm is an in-process analytical SQL database for the browser. It is powered by WebAssembly, speaks Arrow fluently, reads Parquet, CSV, and JSON files backed by Filesystem APIs or HTTP requests, and has been tested with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Node.js. You can try it at shell.duckdb.org or on Observable.
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
Official MongoDB Documentation. Learn to store data in flexible documents, create an Atlas deployment, and use our tools and integrations.
Redis is a fast single-threaded data structure server, commonly used as a cache, scratchpad, queue, or coordination mechanism between distributed applications. It offers operations over a broad array of datatypes , including binary blobs, lists, sets, sorted sets, maps, geohashes, counters, channels, streams, and…
We are excited to announce the start of company that will build around Polars, enabling data processing at any scale.
A discussion of aggregation in PostgreSQL and how it integrates with the design of Timescale’s hyperfunctions.
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
