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FoundationDB is a very impressive database. Its paper won the best industry paper award in SIGMOD’21. In this post, I will explain, in detail, how FDB works and discuss a few very interesting design choices they made. It’s a dense paper packed with neat ideas. Many details (sometimes even proof of correctness) are not…
Postgres is “the world’s most advanced open source database”. It is a highly capable database server, and is ordinarily accessed using SQL queries. Postgres is also highly customisable, with the ability to add new functions, new data types and even new languages. There are currently several language implementations…
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Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go
Better SQL through typed, composable query fragments.
We're excited to announce the release of pandas 3.0.0. This major long-awaited release brings significant improvements to pandas, but also features some potentially breaking changes.
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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces PostgreSQL 9.2, the latest release of the leader in open source databases. Since the …
( This is part of a series on the design of zest . See the list of posts here .)
I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most benchmarks.
A detailed look at the interesting LSM file organisation seen in BigTable, Cassandra and most recently MongoDB.
Before Reddit added native image hosting, Imgur accounted for 15% of all submissions to Reddit. Now it’s below 9%.
New database library for Rust
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The State Space Model taking on Transformers
Introducing Chartio and Data School’s new book Cloud Data Management (4 Stages for Informed Companies).
This post is a list of many of the reasons to use Postgres, much this content as well as how to use these features will later be curated within PostgresGuide.com. If you need to get started check out Postgres.app for Mac, or get a Cloud instance at Heroku Postgres for free UPDATE: A part 2 has been posted on Why Use…
PostgreSQL has built-in JSON generators that can be used to create structured JSON output right in the database, upping performance and radically simplifying web tiers.
B-tree is a structure that helps to search through great amounts of data. It was invented over 40 years ago, yet it is still employed by the majority of modern databases. Although there are newer index structures, like LSM trees, B-tree is unbeaten when handling most of the database queries.
Once upon a time, I was on a small team tasked with building a data pipeline. On this team was someone we’ll call Bob, who was fresh out of grad school and hadn’t had much experience with software engineering, and no experience with SQL. As part of this data pipeline, Bob had to combine the data from two tables. JOIN…
After 13 years, the data is clear—the bathtub curve does not apply to hard drives. And, more importantly, hard drives are failing less and lasting longer.
Today we’re introducing Pebble, a RocksDB-inspired and RocksDB compatible key-value store written in Go that brings greater stability to CockroachDB.
