Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,337 posts.
FoundationDB is a distributed datastore, designed from the ground up to be deployed on clusters of commodity hardware. These clusters scale well as you add machines, automatically heal from hardware failures, and have a simple API. The key-value store supports fully global, cross-row ACID transactions. That’s the…
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…
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
Bespoke cyber investigations and dark web intelligence — threat actor attribution, asset tracing, digital forensics, and ransomware negotiation.
Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io
It’s been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and an incredible year for data across the industry. This Thursday at our Data Driven event in New York, we will kick off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this year. This is the most significant release...
Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). Instead, new versions of the software will be offered under the Elastic License (which limits how it can be used) or the Server…
On 07/26/2016 01:53 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > The write amplification issue, and its correllary in VACUUM, certainly > continues …
Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug.
Nubank is making all editions of Datomic free of licensing fees, released under Apache 2.0 and available directly from Maven Central, no signup required.
Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service, offers customers ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability.
We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL...
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 10, the latest version of the world's most advanced …
Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 14](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html), the latest version of the world’s [most advanced …
Over my 17 years at Amazon, I have seen that my colleagues on the engineering team are never content to leave good-enough alone. They routinely re-evaluate every internal system to make sure that it is as scalable, efficient, performant, and secure as possible. When they find an avenue for improvement, they will use…
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.
Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
Mark Huberty & Clare Corthell, Lyft Mapping
Big data is dead. Long live easy data. | Reading time: 18 min read
How Preston Thorpe went from a prison cell and a college program to a full-time database engineering role at Turso, working on the SQLite rewrite in Rust.
Indirect prompt injection through support-ticket data lets an MCP-enabled assistant cross trust boundaries and query private tables with Supabase’s privileged service role.
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.
Announcing free Postgres storage on Fly.io.
