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PostgreSQL 17
The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 17](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/release-17.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 2,337 posts.
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PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
**7 JANUARY 2016**: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.5. This release adds UPSERT capability, Row …
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Stop syncing everything
Discover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication—allowing edge applications to sync only the data they need, exactly when they need it.
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PostgreSQL 15
**October 13, 2022** - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 15](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/release-15.html), the latest version of …
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LiteFS
We are building a distributed file system for your SQLite databases. Kinda weird, huh?
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs
With B2 Cloud Storage S3 Compatible APIs, we’re making the choice for something different a no-brainer.
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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.
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Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
State-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting in four sizes (5M–209M params), CPU-efficient, zero-shot ready.
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We Can Do Better Than SQL
The questions we often hear are "Why create a new query language?" and "What's wrong with SQL?". This blog post contains answers to both.
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A database for 2022
we moved from etcd to SQLite for a simpler, more scalable database solution. Learn about Litestream, live replication, and lessons learned.
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PostgreSQL 11 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 11, the latest version of the world’s most advanced …
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SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs can be read from or written to individual files on disk using fread() or fwrite().
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Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
AWS’s Sergey Melnik, along with HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, have identified the cause of Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters. As described a 2013 mailing list post , the order in which a PostgreSQL primary makes transactions visible is determined by an in-memory lock. Secondaries, however, make transactions…
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Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
2020-05-26: MongoDB identified a bug in the transaction retry mechanism which they believe was responsible for the anomalies observed in this report; a patch is scheduled for 4.2.8.
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Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
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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A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost
We tested Jev and GPT-6 Luna as judges for identity resolution. A hybrid of Jev and Claude Opus matched frontier accuracy at over 4x lower cost.
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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
Learn how we tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.
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I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-based) and stateless (fingerprinting-based) tracking, the effect of browser privacy tools, and "cookie syncing". This measurement is made possible by our web…
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D1: Our SQL database
Today, we’re excited to announce D1, Cloudflare’s first SQL database, designed for Cloudflare Workers
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PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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PostgreSQL 16
September 14, 2023 - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16, the latest version of …
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Accidental database programming
Join me as we take a look at common application data patterns, and how they relate to the inner-workings of databases. In this post, we discuss data caching, indexing, optimistic mutations, and recursive cache invalidation. We will see how life might be easier if we could just use a frontend optimized database like…
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The Anthropic Economic Index
Announcement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and description of the new data on AI use in occupations
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Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.