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RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements
We are pleased to announce RethinkDB 1.5 ( The Graduate), so go download it now !
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PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released
The first beta release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's best open source database, is now available. …
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Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB
This past Wednesday marked a milestone in the evolution of Wikimedia’s Database infrastructure: the completion of the migration of the English and German Wikipedias, as well as Wikidata, to M…
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Introducing Heka
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, ...
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Data Science of the Facebook World
Stephen Wolfram shares interesting Facebook data analysis finds from the Data Donor program of Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook.
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Running PostgreSQL on Compression-enabled ZFS
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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The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware
Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.
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Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server
While at Waza this year, I had a chance to talk to my friend Guillaume Roques. In addition to talking about SalesForce, we took advantage of our mutual .NET backgrounds to discuss Microsoft. We did the typically uncompromising praise of The Gu and how far Azure has come along in the last 18 months… and of course we…
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Redis as the primary data store
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
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PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released a security update to all current versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including …
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No, ZFS really doesn't need an fsck tool
(This blog entry has been recovered for the sole purpose of repairing a link in Hackernews. This blog entry is otherwise hidden on the website. 2026-04-13)
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Extra security measures for next week's releases
The core committee has decided that one of the security issues due to be fixed next week is sufficiently bad …
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Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories
MariaDB is now officially our default implementation of MySQL. MariaDB is almost a drop in replacement, so an upgrade should be possible with minimum hassle. However, due to remaining compatibility concerns, an automatic replace is not done.
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Riak CS is Now Open Source
Riak's cloud storage software is now open source.
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
A beginner's guide to getting started with web scraping using Python and BeautifulSoup.
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