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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 167 posts.
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Was MongoDB Ever the Right Choice?
I was reading a post recently about Red Hat removing MongoDB support from Satellite (and yes, some folks say it is because of the license changes). It made me think how often over the last few years I’ve seen post after angry post about how terrible MongoDB is and how no one should ever use. However, […]
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Why Julia
it's faster than other scripting languages, allowing you to have the rapid development of Python/MATLAB/R while producing code that is as fast as C/Fortran
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Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow
Discover some of the most common software bugs that businesses are struggling with and unlock effective strategies to overcome them.
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Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology
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Iodide: An experimental Mozilla tool for data exploration on the web
Meet Iodide, an experimental open source tool to help scientists write beautiful interactive documents using web technologies, all within a browser-based iterative workflow that will be familiar to many scientists.
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Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph
Learning from mistakes—your own and those made by others—is a mark of effective organizations. Fostering a learning environment means seeing every...
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New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
Read the latest Neo4j press releases and company news, including product launches, partnerships, and milestones in graph database and analytics.
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Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
The Cloud Firestore database is a NoSQL, serverless solution for mobile and web application development -- now generally available globally.
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PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 11.3, 10.8, …
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Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street
Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars in store…
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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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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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FaunaDB 2.5.4
In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
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Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (2016)
In recent times, there have been a couple of tremendously popular blog posts explaining JOINs using Venn Diagrams. After all, relational algebra and SQL are set oriented theories and languages, so …
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
This review looks at the Q2 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 108,461 hard drives in use at Backblaze's data centers.
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Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
Optimizing memory-usage for approximate nearest neighbor search
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Discovering less-known Postgres v12 features
Get to know and learn how to use some less-known features of Version 12 of PostgreSQL. You'll surely discover something new for yourself.
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Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
Tracking financial transactions at scale
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PartiQL: One query language for all your data
Data is being gathered and created at rates unprecedented in history. Much of this data is intended to drive business outcomes but, according to the Harvard Business Review, “…on average, less than half of an organization’s structured data is actively used in making decisions…” The root of the problem is that data is…
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Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
Here is an outline of some of architectural issues addressed as we build YugabyteDB, our high-performance distributed SQL database.
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PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 12 is now available for download. This …
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Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables
Hash tables provide a fast way to maintain a set of keys or map keys to values, even if the keys are objects, like strings. They are such a ubiquitous tool in computer science that even incremental…
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Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper
In this post I'm going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU's when using Anaconda Python.
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