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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 28 posts.
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On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
It’s pretty clear to computer science geeks that Directed Edge is supposed to be doing groovy things with graphs. In fact our recommendation engine, and some of the things that are unique about our approach to recommendations, are built on our super-fast graph database. When we went live yesterday with the latest…
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Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site
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Performance Tuning PostgreSQL
Tuning your PostgreSQL database is somewhat of a black art. While documentation does exist on the topic, many people still find it hard to get all the power out of their system. This article aims to help.
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Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump
We decided early on that all user-generated content on Stack Overflow would be under a Creative Commons license . All those great Stack Overflow questions, answers, and comments, so generously contributed by all of you , are licensed under cc-wiki (also known as cc-by-sa ):
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NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit
Recently we’ve been exploring the on-demand storage and computation tools offered by Amazon Web Services, along with an open-source toolkit called Apache Hadoop. The result is many computers working together to answer questions about our users.
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Large-scale graph computing at Google
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Systems Infrastructure TeamIf you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, soc...
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