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Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 78 posts.
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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).
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Datomic Pro Starter Edition
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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Introducing Riak 2.0: Data Types, Strong Consistency, Full-Text Search
The Technical Preview of Riak 2.0 is now available for download.
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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.
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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.
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Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views
At more than 8 billion page views per month and 45k requests per second, we’ve learned a couple things about delivering comments at scale.
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OpenZFS launch
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RethinkDB 1.9: Indexing and query runtime performance
This release includes massive enhancements that improve performance of many queries by orders of magnitude. See the full list of enhancements , or watch Joe Doliner ( @jdoliner ), an engineer at RethinkDB, talk about the 1.9 release in this two-minute video:
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Postgresql 9.3 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's leading open source …
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Why Cassandra Doesn't Need Vector Clocks
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
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Logstash joins Elasticsearch
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash can dynamically unify data from disparate sources and...
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SQLite 3.8.0 Release with next-generation query planner
Beginning with this release, SQLite will not compile on Windows version prior to Windows Vista (circa 2007), due to a switch to using Slim Reader/Writer Locks (SRWLs) which are faster but which are not available on WindowsXP and earlier.