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MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin
CSAIL/LIDS team's algorithm doubles initial investment in under two months.
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Databases & Data
The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 2,337 posts.
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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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Breaking the WAL
I did this from a lawn chair on the Sunshine Coast.
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ZFS from a MySQL perspective
As the purpose of a database system is to store data, there is close relationship with the filesystem. Yves Trudeau reconsiders the use of ZFS with MySQL.
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MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
Choosing between MariaDB and MySQL? In this blog, we provide an overview of the key differences between MariaDB vs. MySQL and explore their unique use cases.
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Developer Preview: RethinkDB Now Available for Windows
We’re pleased to announce today that RethinkDB is now available for Windows . You can download a Developer Preview of our Windows build, which runs natively on Microsoft’s operating system.
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Build durable workflows with Postgres
In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build DBOS durable workflow execution on the PostgreSQL DBMS.
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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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Datalog in JavaScript
Let's build a query engine from scratch. In about 100 lines of Javascript, we'll support joins, indexes, and find our answer for Arnold!
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Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
Is it Python 2 or 3 that gets the job done? We crunched the data to find out.
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The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases
Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open…
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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible
CockroachDB is PostgreSQL compatible in order to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge.
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Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL
Release blog post for the 12.0 release of the Citus extension to Postgres. Dive into new Citus 12 features such as schema-based sharding for multi-tenant SaaS applications (and microservices) as well improvements in the Citus support for the Postgres 15 MERGE feature.
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Spice.ai – Open-source, time series AI for developers
Read blog posts about Spice.ai OSS from the team and community
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Free Data Recovery of Wet Phones and Hard Drives for Hurricane Harvey Victims
Visit our Press Release page to get more details concerning the latest as well as upcoming news in our DriveSavers company. Click here to read.
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Transaction Isolation in Postgres
Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code with minimal headache.
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Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream
Trigger HTTP webhooks on every INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE in PostgreSQL. Open-source CDC setup with pgstream, no polling required.
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Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)
This post covers Natural Language Processing fundamentals that are essential to understanding all of today’s language models.
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Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
中文版 – At AWS, we focus on solving problems for customers. Over the years, customer usage and dependencies on open source technologies have been steadily increasing; this is why we’ve long been committed to open source, and our pace of contributions to open source projects – both our own and others’ – continues to…
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Elasticsearch was never a database
Elasticsearch is a search engine, not a database. Here's why it falls short as a system of record.