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A developer FAQ created by the Citus engineering team when they first began working on distributed deadlock detection in the Citus database. Explores when PostgreSQL acquires locks, when deadlocks occur, and how Citus detects and prevents distributed deadlocks in Postgres.
Discover why we built Vectroid, a serverless vector database that delivers exceptional accuracy and low latency without compromising on cost. Learn about our approach to solving the traditional tradeoffs between speed, accuracy, and cost in vector search.
In a previous post we explored how our application tracks sent emails. We set things up to update or insert a record for each email with the current state (delivered, dropped, etc). In this post we'll look at an alternative data model where we'll store each event as its own record and then roll up t
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The design of SQLite was inspired by the design of TCL, both in the way it handles datatypes and in the formatting of its source code. The index use case for SQLite was in a Tcl/Tk application for an industrial company. From its inception, SQLite has always depended heavily on TCL. These days, SQLite no longer uses…
Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-source and self-hostable.
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Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Discover how Postgres managed by ClickHouse compares to its peers in a reproducible, open benchmark.
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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On the Stitch Fix Algorithms team, we’ve always been in awe of what professional stylists are able to do, especially when it comes to knowing a customer’s si...
Web apps have had offline capabilities like saving large data sets and binary files for some time. You can even do things like cache MP3 files. Browser technology can store ...
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By aggregating our data in an effort to simplify it, we lose the signal and the context we need to make sense of what we’re seeing.
Recently, we had a discussion about whether we should use native enums in PostgreSQL, or rely on regular string columns with CHECK constraints. In the end, we decided that we wanted to go with the latter.
Product updates, comparisons, and deep dives on database change management, access control, and compliance from the Bytebase engineering team.
