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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
A well-written, *FAST* data science database for your laptop.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,338 posts.
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Is Tableau Dead?
Is Tableau dead? The future looks mixed.
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Three things you should never put in your database
There are several things that are not usually appropriate to put into a relational database
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Let's Build a Modern Hadoop
Not just another Hadoop rant — I promise
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How we made data aggregation on PostgreSQL better and faster
They’re so fast we can’t catch up! Check out our benchmarks with two datasets to learn how we used continuous aggregates to make queries up to 44,000x faster.
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The next generation of Materialize
Today, we’re excited to announce a product that we feel is transformational: a persistent, scalable, cloud-native Materialize.
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Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs
Pruning agent context down to what the answer actually needs, while keeping 96% of recall
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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)
Discover the capabilities of Annoy, an innovative algorithm revolutionizing approximate nearest neighbor searches for enhanced efficiency and precision.
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics (2019)
In this first post of Tweag’s four-part series on Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms, you will learn about why and when to use them and the theoretical underpinnings of this powerful class of sampling methods. We discuss the famous Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and give an intuition on the choice of its free…
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Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL adds high availability and replication
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL users, we heard you loud and clear, and added support for high availability (HA) and read replicas, helping you ensure your database workloads are fault tolerant.
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Running Databases on Kubernetes
Things to consider when running a database on Kubernetes.
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12 Months with MongoDB
As previously blogged , Wordnik is a heavy user of 10gen’s MongoDB . One year ago today we started the investigation to find an alternative to MySQL to store, find, and retrieve our corpus data. After months of experimentation in the non-relational landscape (and running a scary number of nightly builds), we settled…
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MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a database service designed for 11 9s of durability with in-memory performance. In this paper, we describe the architecture of MemoryDB and how we leverage open-source Redis, a popular data structure store, to build an enterprise-grade cloud database. MemoryDB offloads…
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Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?
EnterpriseDB (“EDB”), the leader in accelerating Postgres® in the enterprise, today announced its acquisition of Splitgraph, an early-stage disruptor that provides a Postgres compatible serverless SQL API for building data driven applications from hundreds of datasources. This move is seen as a meaningful step in…
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US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Introducing HypoPG, hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL
_Paris, June 24 2015_ DALIBO is proud to present the first release of HypoPG, an extension that adds hypothetical indexes …
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Postgres 15 Merge Command with Examples
We’re excited about the MERGE command in PostgreSQL 15. We have some ideas about using it for data loading with an example use case for remote sensors.
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Modern Text Features in R
ragg has taken a major leap forward in text-rendering capabilities with the latest releases of systemfonts, textshaping, and ragg itself. This post will go into detail with what is now possible and how it compares to the build in devices.
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Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere
Today, we’re excited to announce the technology preview of AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run on premises, at the edge, across clouds, or even on developer laptops.
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SQLite: Infinite loop due to the ‘order by limit’ optimization
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The HDFS Juggernaut
There's been much focus on MongoDB, Elastic and Redis in terms of data exposure on the Internet due to their general popularity in the developer community. However, in terms of data volume it turns out that HDFS is the real juggernaut. To give you a better idea here's a quick
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Apache Arrow 4.0
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 4.0.0 release. This covers 3 months of development work and includes 711 resolved issues from 114 distinct contributors. See the Install Page to learn how to get the libraries for your platform. The release notes below are not exhaustive and only expose selected…