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The "Ask HN: Who is hiring" monthly post on Hacker News, available on the first day of each month, provides a platform for users to share tech job listings for free. Analyzing 10 years of these posts with a Python script reveals significant shifts in hiring trends. This insight into the evolving tech job market can…
A few weeks ago I hinted at some big changes coming in the InfluxDB clustering design. These changes came about because of the testing weve done over the last 3 months with the clustering design that was going to be shipped in 0.9.0.
Late interaction makes retrieval more precise but turns every document into many vectors. Asymmetric quantization keeps query vectors precise and stores…
PostgreSQL subtransactions (nested transactions) may cause multiple performance and scalability issues: higher rates of XID growth and higher risks of transaction ID wraparound, performance degradation when more than PGPROC_MAX_CACHED_SUBXIDS (64) are used in a session, drastic performance slowdowns when…
Relational databases have been a mainstay for decades. But what happens when you need to scale out a relational database like Postgres? This post announces Citus Cloud 2, the latest version of the Citus managed database as a service that scales out Postgres horizontally in the cloud.
The OpenSearch Software Foundation today announced the general availability of OpenSearch 3.0. This major release delivers a 9.5x performance improvement over OpenSearch 1.3, building on benchmarking data that showed earlier iterations of OpenSearch operating 1.6x faster than its closest industry competitor.
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, and Dan R. K. Ports, University of Washington
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 ...
Introduction to Kumo Relational — the relational foundation model for predictive AI on relational data
Using PostgreSQL as a full-text search engine is tempting because it requires less infrastructure. But is its set of search-related features enough to compete with the Lucene based alternatives?
Welcome to Part 2 of a blog series that introduces TensorFlow Datasets and Estimators. We're devoting this article to —a data structure describing the features that an Estimator requires for training and inference. As you'll see, feature columns are very rich, enabling you to represent a diverse range of data.
Oscar Wilde once said, “it’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco.” Indeed, with the weather, view, and diversity, San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the U.S. But then, every city has a dark side, and San Francisco is no exception. San Francisco, as […]
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.
why people pretending CSV is dead are wrong
The DeWitt clause lets database vendors forbid publishing benchmarks. What the clause is, which vendors still use it, and what you can legally publish.
The following is an update on the security vulnerability identified in December 2025.
dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs to enhance analytics engineering solutions. Learn how this partnership strengthens the modern data stack.
Our latest ANN release supports scales of 100+ billion vectors in a single search index, with 200ms p99 query latency at 1k QPS and 92% recall.
Index creation time is a critical database metric. Learn more about how Lantern enables 90x faster index creation times than pgvector, and how Lantern compares to Pinecone.
Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using queries that r...
Dataflow is a fully managed streaming analytics service that reduces latency, processing time, cost through autoscaling and real-time data processing.
Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases: one modern, reliable Rust core with many SQL frontends. After rewriting SQLite, we are now building Postgres.
