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PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
18 DECEMBER 2014: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.4, the latest version of the world's …
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Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database
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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.
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Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014
At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced.
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Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude of options to RDS including extensive console support, three additional database engines ( Oracle, SQL Server, and…
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Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages
We are pleased to announce today the initial release of Transit. Transit is a format and set of libraries for conveying values between applications written i...
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Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
NB: These techniques are universal, but for syntax we chose Postgres. Thanks to the inimitable pgAdminIII for the Explain graphics. So useful, yet so slow
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YC Portfolio Stats
We get asked a lot for statistics on the YC portfolio. Even though some of these aren’t that helpful [1], here is the latest update on the numbers we get asked about the most. As always, all the credit goes to the founders. Total market cap of all YC companies: >$30 billion Total money raised by all YC companies: >$3…
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PostgreSQL’s New LATERAL Join Type
This post walks through a conversion funnel analysis that wouldn’t be possible in PostgreSQL 9.2
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What Unsustainable Growth Looks Like: Herbalife, Groupon, and More
Sometimes growth hides the fact that a business is on the verge of failure. Here's how.
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MariaDB 10
Best MariaDB ever hits the streets – MariaDB 10 innovations developed with Google, SkySQL & Fusion-IO London, United Kingdom – 31 March 2014 – The MariaDB Foundation, an independent body which promotes the popular open source database MariaDB, today announced the much-anticipated general availability of MariaDB 10…
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Total security in a PostgreSQL database
The technologies used to build or run their apps
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World Cup Follow-Up: Update of Winning Probabilities and Betting Results
An update on the winning probabilities for the remaining World Cup teams, and an analysis of how our predictor performed on the group-phase matches.
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Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
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Facebook's Top Open Data Problems
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
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