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Video Processing at Dropbox
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
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LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved
Web apps have had offline capabilities like saving large data sets and binary files for some time. You can even do things like cache MP3 files. Browser technology can store ...
Total security in a PostgreSQL database
The technologies used to build or run their apps
Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
NB: These techniques are universal, but for syntax we chose Postgres. Thanks to the inimitable pgAdminIII for the Explain graphics. So useful, yet so slow
TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction And Volume Identification
One of the disclosed pitfalls of TrueCrypt disk encryption is that the master keys must remain in RAM in order to provide fully transparent...
Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.
102TB of New Crawl Data Available
We are very please to announce that new crawl data is now available! The data was collected in 2013, contains approximately 2 billion web pages and is 102TB in size (uncompressed).
Linux memory manager and your big data
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
RethinkDB 1.11 is out: query profiler, new streaming algorithm, devops features
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.11 ( Breakfast at Tiffany’s ), which improves the experience of operating live RethinkDB deployments. Download it now!
SparkFun's migration from MariaDB to PostgreSQL
The devs switch underlying databases for SparkFun.com and somehow, miraculously, the sky stays put firmly up above.
Datomic Pro Starter Edition
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
Introducing Riak 2.0: Data Types, Strong Consistency, Full-Text Search
The Technical Preview of Riak 2.0 is now available for download.
Million Lines of Code - Infographic
Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines of code are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps? Let our data-visualization program your brain.
Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
It's not all math & science at Wolfram. Today's pop topic: Pokémon! Catch their abilities, stats, icons, curves, creators, games, movies—even X & Y.