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FoundationDB Record Layer
Today, we are excited to announce the open source release of the FoundationDB Record Layer!
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 2,337 posts.
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Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models
Posted by Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Student Researcher, and Chen-Yu Lee, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a new da...
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Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter
We’ve calculated Backblaze’s storage durability at 99.999999999%. What does that impressively large number mean, and does it actually matter for your data?
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LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT
AlpacaEval an LLM-based automatic evaluation that is fast, cheap, and reliable. It is based on the AlpacaFarm evaluation set, which tests the ability of models to follow general user instructions. These responses are then compared to reference responses (Davinci003 for AlpacaEval, GPT-4 Preview for AlpacaEval 2.0) by…
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Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives
A comprehensive comparison between Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL for search workloads.
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Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views
At more than 8 billion page views per month and 45k requests per second, we’ve learned a couple things about delivering comments at scale.
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LiteCLI – A user-friendly command-line client for SQLite database
LiteCLI is written in python using the wonderful prompt-toolkit library. It is cross-platform compatible and it is tested on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
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Postgres Incremental Backup
We walk through the incremental backup feature committed to the Postgres 17 development branch by Robert Haas. We show an example on our local machine.
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Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
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Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency
Say goodbye to Kafka ZooKeeper dependency! KIP-500 introduces a new way of storing data in Kafka itself, rather than in external systems such as ZooKeeper.
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At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet
From Pub-Sub messaging to Foreign Data Wrappers - five extraordinary features that made Postgres our backend of choice for Arcentry
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Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude of options to RDS including extensive console support, three additional database engines ( Oracle, SQL Server, and…
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Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research
Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software EngineersMany recent breakthroughs in machine learning and machine perception have ...
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Kafka Is Not a Database
Get insights on Materialize's latest updates & trends in streaming databases & data products.
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Postgres full-text search: A search engine in a database (2021)
With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.
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Postgres Auditing in 150 lines of SQL
PostgreSQL has a robust set of features which we can leverage to create a generic auditing solution in 150 lines of SQL.
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Securing a Postgres Database
A comprehensive overview of the best practices for securing access to PostgreSQL databases.
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Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
Alongside lower costs, Cloud Spanner provides single-digit ms latencies and strong consistency across multiple availability zones in the same region.
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Do you even need a database?
We built the same HTTP server in Go, Bun, and Rust using two storage strategies: read the file on every request, or load everything into memory. Then we ran real benchmarks. The results are more interesting than you'd expect.
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President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill
The Data Coalition is dedicated to improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy
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AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this day and age, it is almost impossible to do without our mobile devices and the applications that help make our lives easier. As our dependency on our mobile phone grows, the mobile application market has…
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Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release
The Electric sync engine is now in BETA. If you haven't checked out Electric recently, it's a great time to take another look.
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CockroachDB beta-20161013
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database, loosely patterned after Google Spanner and designed for semi-synchronous networks. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol , supports a reasonable dialect of SQL , and combines replication for durability with transparent scale-out sharding for large tables. Its most…
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The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression
Haiying Tang takes you on a tour of LZ$ TOAST, the new column opton compression in PostgreSQL 14, and shows the speed and compression ratio gains.
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Contextual Retrieval
Contextual retrieval improves how AI systems access and use information, reducing retrieval failures in large knowledge bases.
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