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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 153 posts.
We want to give you a database that allows you to quickly and simply build and manage data-intensive applications in the cloud—without worrying about the performance, scale or resilience of those apps. To support that mission, our latest release includes updates that let you build fast and build to last.
The new QGIS 3.14 version adds support for the native loading of vector tiles. The easiest way to load them is via the recently released plugin.
An experiment analyzing the NYC taxi dataset through the eyes of an options trader.
Complete system-versioned tables: WITH SYSTEM VERSIONING syntax, FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF/BETWEEN/ALL queries, and ROW_START/ROW_END columns.
As the volume and complexity of your data processing pipelines increase, you can simplify the overall process by decomposing it into a series of smaller tasks and coordinate the execution of these tasks as part of a workflow. To do so, many developers and data engineers use Apache Airflow, a platform created by the…
Redpanda powers an Agentic Data Plane and Data Streaming platform for real-time performance, AI innovation, and simplified operations.
Mendoza is a new, super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents.
We have many conversations with companies and organizations who are deciding between building their own feature store and buying one....
You have a file, possibly a huge CSV, and you want to import its content into your database. There are lots of options to do this but how would you decide which one to use. More often than not the question is how much time would the bulk load would take. I found my self doing the same
Why it’s important to improve Postgres connection scalability, plus an analysis on the limits of connection scalability today.
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
Elastic 7.9 (Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) delivers new capabilities to market. Get started with a new free tier of Workplace Search, part of Elastic Enterprise Security, and ...
Analysis of electric vehicle battery health of 22K+ EVs reveals a 2.3% average battery degradation rate. High-power DC fast charging is the top risk factor.
Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using queries that r...
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
By Ben Sykes
During the summers of my high school years in suburban Georgia, my friend and I would fill the time by randomly walking into local establishments asking for odd jobs. It was a great way as a studen…
Introduction to managing DB shcema changes with Liquibase
An initiative to develop API standards for n-dimensional arrays and dataframes
Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou
What do nested transactions look like in an ACID environment? We explore the journey of a nested SQL transaction in CockroachDB in this post.
From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is…
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch, our customers have used S3…
