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Vector similarity search is a game-changer in the world of search. It allows us to efficiently search a huge range of media, from GIFs to articles — with incredible accuracy in sub-second timescales for billion+ size datasets.
Vigneshwaran C explained the internals of PostgreSQL Logical Replication during PGConf India - if you were not able to attend, you can read all here.
This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for 98,184 hard drives with a focus on consumer vs. enterprise drive reliability.
PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay.
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
In the previous article, we discussed our use of Apache Arrow within the context of the OpenTelemetry project. We investigated various techniques to maximize the efficiency of Apache Arrow, aiming to find the optimal balance between data compression ratio and queryability. The compression results speak for themselves…
Uber connects the physical and digital worlds to help make movement happen at the tap of a button. Billions of trips, deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, and merchants are made at Uber every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides…
The SQL language is a "standard". Even so, no two SQL database engines work exactly alike. Every SQL implementation has its own peculiarities and oddities, and SQLite is no exception to this rule.
Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.
InfluxDB clustering is key for high availability and monetization. Clustering and high availability functionality will be available as part of our Influx Enterprise offering. Get a crash course on this topic and also read the newer version as well as u...
Testing Andrew Ng's document extraction service reveals over 50% hallucinated values in financial tables. | Pulse AI
This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing. This week in San Francisco, thousands of people are at Spark Summit, to explore and understand how they leverage Apache Spark to get the most out of big data.
Complete system-versioned tables: WITH SYSTEM VERSIONING syntax, FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF/BETWEEN/ALL queries, and ROW_START/ROW_END columns.
Our hardware infrastructure comprises millions of machines, all of which generate logs that we need to process, store, and serve. The total size of these logs is several petabytes every hour. The o…
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Nearly three years ago to the day, from a set of green, worn couches in a modest office Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Riak team announced Riak to the world. To say we've come a long way from that first release would be an understatement, and today we’re pleased to announce the release and general a
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Today we're announcing that InfluxDB, the company, is now InfluxData. This is the beginning of delivering on our long-term vision.
`varchar(191)` is such an odd number - how did we get here?
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An optimization that made Pivot significantly faster on GROUP BY queries with a Top-K operator above them, and a walkthrough of how analytical databases run GROUP BY in the first place.
IoT applications generate torrents of data. Learn how - and why - to use TimescaleDB to scale PostgreSQL by 20x and harness its power for IoT.
This is a Python/Pandas vs Julia cheatsheet and comparison. You can find what is the equivalent of Pandas in Julia or vice versa. You can find links to the documentation and other useful Pandas/Julia resources. The table below show the useful links for both: Pandas Julia data analysis
The best new features in SQL Server 2014 probably won't come with the cheap prices or licensing. Learn why the release date will probably be an expensive one.
