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DuckDB-Wasm is an in-process analytical SQL database for the browser. It is powered by WebAssembly, speaks Arrow fluently, reads Parquet, CSV, and JSON files backed by Filesystem APIs or HTTP requests, and has been tested with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Node.js. You can try it at shell.duckdb.org or on Observable.
PostgreSQL 11 includes a new component in the execution engine: a JIT expression compiler. A benchmark comparison shows up to 29.31% speed improvements in PostgreSQL 11 using the JIT expression compiler, executing TPC-H Q1 at scale factor 10 in 20.5s instead of 29s when using PostgreSQL 10.
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Engineering notes and product news from the PhoenixAI team — real-time analytics, AI agent workloads, lakehouse architecture, and what we're shipping.
We are pleased to announce RethinkDB 1.5 ( The Graduate), so go download it now !
Build better AI apps with flexible retrieval methods in LangChain. Use any retriever—from semantic to hybrid—to create personalized ChatGPT for your data.
MariaDB is now officially our default implementation of MySQL. MariaDB is almost a drop in replacement, so an upgrade should be possible with minimum hassle. However, due to remaining compatibility concerns, an automatic replace is not done.
Today, we are open-sourcing TrailDB, a core library powering AdRoll. TrailDB makes it fast and fun to handle event data.
What is the first rule of programming? Maybe something like “do not repeat yourself” or “if it works, don’t touch it”? Or, how about “do not write your own database!”… That’s a good one.
A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.
We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB...
Why and how the UK Coronavirus Dashboard team built their analytics service on top of PostgreSQL & Citus on Azure.
With the release of ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0, we’ve introduced a rich set of new production-ready features that surpass the capabilities of Apache Cassandra.
Guide to PostgreSQL Replication and CDC - Navigate the complexities of logical replication in PostgreSQL.
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Column order can determine how quickly your data is processed in PostgreSQL. Find out how to troubleshoot performance problems in wide tables
Explore how organizations leverage Gemini Embedding for context-aware AI systems improving performance, accuracy, and efficiency across diverse industries.
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate is available for download. This release should fix all …
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...
At IKEA we are building a knowledge graph to improve the overall experience of our customers in the physical and digital space. I like to…
