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SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019)
This is a briefing on SQLite intended for Linux kernel hackers, and especially those working on Linux filesystems.
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 153 posts.
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The Splitgraph Data Delivery Network – query over 40k public datasets
EnterpriseDB (“EDB”), the leader in accelerating Postgres® in the enterprise, today announced its acquisition of Splitgraph, an early-stage disruptor that provides a Postgres compatible serverless SQL API for building data driven applications from hundreds of datasources. This move is seen as a meaningful step in…
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
Hard drive failure rates on an annualized and quarterly basis for 139,867 hard drives by make and manufacturer.
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Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer
“The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just inertia. Developers might say they prefer to run PostgreSQL to proprietary alternatives (and they do), but enterprises have…
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Prisma 2.0 Beta: Type-safe Database Access
Prisma 2 Beta introduced type-safe database access with Prisma Client, updated docs, and a clearer path toward production readiness.
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Amazon Location Service
Update June 1, 2021 – Amazon Location Service is now generally available and includes routing and raster (satellite) maps. You can easily and securely add maps, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to your applications. Read more about the new features in our new blog post here or try it now in the console. We…
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SQLite 3.33
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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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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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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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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Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
Materialize offers a streaming data warehouse for real-time analytics & interoperability with millisecond latency, revolutionizing data handling.
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A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
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The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
Today, The New York Times has made one of the most comprehensive datasets of coronavirus cases in the United States publicly available in response to requests from researchers, scientists…
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Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines
A complete guide to building end-to-end machine learning pipelines, from training to deployment, with Metaflow and Cortex
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Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
An overview of some of the reasons Snowflake is trading at 150x its revenue.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.
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AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to cloud report
Key learnings about how to get the best performance from GCP, AWS, and Azure based on original research and conversations with the big three.
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Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks
By partnering with Google, DeepMind is able to bring the benefits of AI to billions of people all over the world. From reuniting a speech-impaired user with his original voice, to helping users discover personalised apps, we can apply breakthrough research to immediate real-world problems at a Google scale. Today…
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FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying
FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been separate-but-related members of the #1 Open Source storage software family since 2012.
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Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3
The etcd key-value store is a distributed system intended for use as a coordination primitive. Like Zookeeper and Consul , etcd stores a small volume of infrequently-updated state ( by default, up to 8 GB ) in a key-value map, and offers strict-serializable reads, writes and micro-transactions across the entire…
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ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC
See how ClickHouse delivers faster query performance on 500 billion rows of data compared to ScyllaDB, leveraging an Intel NUC mini PC, advanced compression, and materialized views.
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TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3
Many developers believe S3 is the "end of file system history". It is impossible to build a file/object storage system on AWS that can compete with S3...
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Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
Explore the latest updates from Caylent, including industry trends, expert insights, company news, and more.