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PostgreSQL 9.2 released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces PostgreSQL 9.2, the latest release of the leader in open source databases. Since the …
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 2,337 posts.
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Android Fragmentation Visualized
Our reports examine national and regional trends in mobile and broadband network experience, and develop in-depth insights into trends impacting consumer network experience.
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We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management
Introducing Chartio and Data School’s new book Cloud Data Management (4 Stages for Informed Companies).
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Generating JSON Directly from Postgres
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.
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How does a B-tree make queries fast?
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.
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Are hard drives getting better?
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.
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Pebble: A RocksDB Inspired Key-Value Store Written in Go
Today we’re introducing Pebble, a RocksDB-inspired and RocksDB compatible key-value store written in Go that brings greater stability to CockroachDB.
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I/O Access Methods for Linux
Explore the four different ways to perform disk I/O on Linux and the tradeoffs and what we chose for ScyllaDB to build a high-performing database.
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Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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The challenges of soft delete
Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.
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Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users
By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform ...
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Storage on Vercel
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
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Backblaze hard drive reliability stats for Q3 2016
We take a look at the hard drive performance of over 65,000 hard drives ranging from 2TB to 8TB drives. Find out the best performers.
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Cloud Memorystore: A fully managed in-memory data store service for Redis
Cloud Memorystore is fully compatible with open source Redis, letting you migrate your applications to Google Cloud with zero code changes.
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Postgresql 9.6: Support parallel aggregation
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial results to produce the final answer.
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How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
Impressed by the graphs on popular site FiveThirtyEight? This quick tutorial gets you started making your own eye-catching visualizations.
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GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
Now in its third year, the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs compares AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) to tell realistic performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.
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CouchDB 3.0
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in …
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2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure
The 2020 Cloud Report compares AWS, GCP, and Azure on microbenchmarks and customer-like-workloads to understand performance tradeoffs within each cloud.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
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Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier
At BigML we believe that over the next few years automated, data-driven decisions and data-driven applications are going to change the world. In fact, we think it will be the biggest shift in busi…
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Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
Many companies are running old Postgres versions and missing out on many improvements. The reasons: Postgres works and upgrades suck.
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What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner
Postgres 16 introduces quite a few improvements to the query planner and makes many SQL queries run faster than they did on previous versions of PostgreSQL. This post is a deep dive into 10 of the improvements, including code blocks and comparisons of query plan output between Postgres 15 & Postgres 16.
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How we built a serverless SQL database
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.