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Timescale raises $16M from Benchmark, NEA, Two Sigma Ventures
Humanity is now living with machines and swimming in machine data. Timescale just raised $16M to help developers, businesses, and society make sense of it all.
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 2,338 posts.
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InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality
We are releasing InfluxDB 1.1, which includes a number of key performance and stability improvements as well as some new query capabilities.
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Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB
Every monitoring system has to deal with three kinds of performance-related challenges. Firstly, a good monitoring system must receive, process and record incoming data very quickly. Every microsecond counts here. This may not seem obvious from the start but when your system becomes large enough all the tiny fractions…
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Linux memory manager and your big data
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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Irmin: Git-like distributed DB
Read the post on "Introducing Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage" from our blog.
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MongoDB Releases Queryable Encryption Preview
Today we are announcing the preview release of Queryable Encryption which allows customers to encrypt sensitive data from the client side, store it as fully randomized encrypted data on the database server side, and run expressive queries on the encrypted data. Learn more.
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How much of my observability data is waste?
After a decade in observability, one question kept coming back: how much of your data is waste?
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450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown
Introduction Readyset is designed to serve queries from cached views with sub-millisecond latency. This post focuses on the cold path—cases where a cache miss forces execution against the base tables. In these scenari...
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Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know: Reservoir Sampling
Cloudera Blog is your source for expert guidance on the latest data and AI trends, technology innovation, best practices, success stories, and more.
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PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
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Etcd 2.0 – First Major Stable Release
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Faster hash joiner with vectorized execution
How we built a 40x faster hash joiner using vectorized execution.
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Cleaning Up Your Postgres Database
Actionable steps on how to improve your Postgres database performance.
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How to Lie with Data Visualization
Three common ways data visualizations can mislead.
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Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)
When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits.
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Custom SQL functions for data analytics in PostgreSQL
There is a better way to explore and analyze time-series data with PostgreSQL: hyperfunctions. Learn how to ease your workload with faster and simpler data.
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MongoDB acquires Voyage AI
MongoDB to integrate Voyage AI's industry-leading embedding and reranking models, delivering highly accurate and relevant information retrieval to power sophisticated AI use cases NEW YORK , Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB), the leading database for modern applications,
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ClickHouse raises $350M Series C
ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing.
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Making Faster B-Trees with Go Generics
Go generics are a new way to improve performance in golang. Let’s see what effect generics had on Google’s B-tree implementation.
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Timescale Announces New Database Cloud
Timescale Cloud provides a balance between a familiar developer platform and a flexible database for modern applications while retaining the ease.
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Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?
PostgreSQL trigger performance. Should we use tiggers at all? Find out how triggers perform in performance tests.
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Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots
Optimize OpenZFS snapshots. Learn which data benefits from snapshots, how long to keep them, and how to avoid performance bottlenecks.
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One Million Database Connections
Learn how to use PlanetScale to safely include your database in your serverless functions without hitting connection limits in MySQL.