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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs
With B2 Cloud Storage S3 Compatible APIs, we’re making the choice for something different a no-brainer.
Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables
Posted by Thomas Müller, Software Engineer, Google Research Much of the world’s information is stored in the form of tables, which can be found o...
Jepsen: Dgraph 1.1.1
Dgraph is a graph database which aims to provide scalable, highly-available, and snapshot-isolated transactions over a labeled directed graph, while minimizing network communication for performance. Conceptually, Dgraph stores a set of (entity, attribute, value) triples. Entities (also known as subjects), are compact…
Apache Druid vs. Time-Series Databases
Although Druid draws ideas from a number of TSDB concepts, it is designed for a wider range of analytic use cases than those for which a TSDB is usually employed.
You probably don't need PostGIS
PostGIS is a fantastic, battle-tested suite of GIS extensions for Postgres. It handles most aspects of it, and is widely used, for example in OpenStreetMap’s Mapnik. But for your project, it’s most likely overkill. In a Q and A fashion, let’s discuss reasons for (not) using it.
Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
Explore the latest updates from Caylent, including industry trends, expert insights, company news, and more.
Using SIMD to aggregate billions of values per second
How SIMD instructions make aggregations faster in QuestDB, including benchmark results and a comparison with Postgres.
PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation
Grafana is an open source visualization and dashboarding technology that allows you to explore your metrics, logs, and traces no matter where the data is.
Prisma 2.0 Beta: Type-safe Database Access
Prisma 2 Beta introduced type-safe database access with Prisma Client, updated docs, and a clearer path toward production readiness.
Dolt is Git for data
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
See how our clients and partners—from small business owners to workforce training leaders—work with JPMorganChase to drive meaningful impact and economic growth where they live and work.
PostgreSQL Schema Design
The Postgres database is rich with features well beyond that of any other
The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
Today, The New York Times has made one of the most comprehensive datasets of coronavirus cases in the United States publicly available in response to requests from researchers, scientists…
How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights
By Ben Sykes
AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to cloud report
Key learnings about how to get the best performance from GCP, AWS, and Azure based on original research and conversations with the big three.
FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying
FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been separate-but-related members of the #1 Open Source storage software family since 2012.
CouchDB 3.0
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in …
Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
Materialize offers a streaming data warehouse for real-time analytics & interoperability with millisecond latency, revolutionizing data handling.
DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework
Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou