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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017
Since 2013, Backblaze has been showcasing daily statistics from our hard drives. Find out how our drives have been doing throughout 2017 with this blog post.
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 170 posts.
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Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition
Posted by André Araujo and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google ResearchImage classification technology has shown remarkable improvement over ...
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Faster R with FastR
R is a programming language for statistical computing known for its rich ecosystem of 3rd party libraries called “packages”. The R…
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Geosharded Recommendations with Hilbert Curve at Tinder
We’re on a mission to keep the magic of human connection alive. Learn more about life at Tinder and the many ways we're igniting our impact—for our employees and the millions of people seeking connection on our app.
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How Postgres is more than a relational database: Extensions
Extensions allow Postgres to be customized and extended in powerful new ways. Here we find a tour of extensions and how they can make Postgres into much more than a relational database
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The Growth of Reddit
Explore the Quillbot blog for practical articles on writing, grammar, creativity, AI tools, education, marketing, and career growth.
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Using machine learning to index text from billions of images
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.
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Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientDB, Neo4j and ArangoDB
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Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing effortless.
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Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018
As of March 31, 2018 we had 100,110 spinning hard drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models (Seagate, HGST, WDC, and Toshiba) in operation in our data centers.
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Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World
SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. SQLite is found in:
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SQLite: Infinite loop due to the ‘order by limit’ optimization
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Optimal Shard Placement in a Petabyte Scale Elasticsearch Cluster
At the heart of Meltwater’s and Fairhair.ai’s information retrieval systems lies a collection of Elasticsearch clusters containing billions of social media posts and editorial articles. The index shards in our clusters vary greatly in their access pattern, workload and size which presents some very interesting…
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Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning
This SEI Blog post explores the differences between statistics and machine learning and how to translate statistical models into machine learning models.
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Faster – A key-value store for large state management
At SIGMOD 2018, a team from Microsoft Research will be presenting a new embedded key-value store called FASTER, described in their paper “FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates”. As its name suggests, FASTER makes a major leap forward in terms of supporting fast and frequent lookups and updates of…
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Managed Redis on Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud provides managed database services for your favorite open source data stores as well as Google proprietary technologies. Today we’re announcing updates to both.
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Improving compression at scale with Zstandard
Two years ago, Facebook open-sourced Zstandard v1.0, a landmark data compression solution that offers best-in-kind performance. Since then, we’ve released a variety of enhancements and advanc…
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PostgreSQL 10.2 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 10.2, 9.6.7, …
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Consistency Models
Jepsen analyzes the safety properties of distributed systems–most notably, identifying violations of consistency models. But what are consistency models? What phenomena do they allow? What kind of consistency does a given program really need?
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FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in
In two weeks since open sourcing FoundationDB , we’ve had an outpouring of interest.
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Reproducible machine learning with PyTorch and Quilt
In this article, we'll use Quilt to transfer versioned training data to a remote machine. We'll start with the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset, package the dataset, then train a PyTorch model for super-resolution imaging.
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Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3
Aerospike , formerly Citrusleaf, is a distributed, sharded document store designed for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Each record is a map of keys to values, which may be either primitive types (integers, strings, bytes, etc.) or nested collections like lists and maps. Secondary indices are also available…