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Businesses seek the best price and performance to suit the storage needs of workloads ranging from multimedia serving, to data analytics and machine learning, to data backup/archiving, all of which drive demand for a variety of storage options. At Google, we aim to build a powerful cloud platform that can meet the…
Everybody counts, but not always quickly. This post looks into how the PostgreSQL database optimizes counting. In Postgres, there are ways to count orders of magnitude faster. We’ll look at exact counts (distinct counts) as well as estimated counts, using approximation algorithms such as HyperLogLog (HLL) in Postgres.
Streaming Messages from Kafka into Redshift in near Real-Time Shahid C., Software Engineer Oct 17, 2016 This post is part of a series covering Yelp's real-time streaming data infrastructure. Our...
Why Even Try, Man? I recently came upon Brian Granger and Jake VanderPlas’s Altair, a promising young visualization library. Altair seems well-suited to addressing Python’s ggplot …
There are many patterns for numbers in passwords, which involve surprising yet intuitive logic.
Using Haskell, R, Python, SQLite, and Elasticsearch, we data mine Hacker News front page stories and their back page counterparts for patterns.
Posted by Sujith Ravi, Staff Research Scientist, Google ResearchRecently, there have been significant advances in Machine Learning that enable comp...
Have you ever wondered what your hard drive SMART errors actually mean? Find out what we look at to determine if a drive is about to fail.
Exploration of different architectures for designing a SaaS database that scales for multi-tenant data models, including one database per tenant, one schema per tenant, and having all tenants share the same tables. The right choice for you depends on whether you’re optimizing for scale or isolation.
Today I have sad news to share. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our efforts we were ultimately unable to build a sustainable business. There is a lot of information to unpack – over the next…
Hello. I've just uploaded ZSON extension on GitHub: https://github.com/afiskon/zson ZSON learns on your common JSONB documents and creates a dictionary …
This is the text version of a talk I gave on September 27, 2016, at the Collections as Data event at the Library of Congress. [ video ] (21 mins)
PostgreSQL 9.6 was released a few days ago and it’s another huge milestone for the PostgreSQL community ! The release notes are way too long, so I’ve decided to pick up 6 big improvements that may change the way you will use PostgreSQL.
When you have to build a web application, you are often asked to add search. The magnifying glass is something that we now add to wireframes without even knowing what we are going to search.
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Posted by Ivan Krasin and Tom Duerig, Software EngineersIn the last few years, advances in machine learning have enabled Computer Vision to progres...
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Adventures in getting to know our database
PostgreSQL 9.6, the latest version of the world's leading open source database, was released today by the PostgreSQL Global Development …
Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software EngineersMany recent breakthroughs in machine learning and machine perception have ...
Analysis of Simpsons characters, dialogue, TV ratings, and more
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SQLite is not directly comparable to client/server SQL database engines such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server since SQLite is trying to solve a different problem.
