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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 269 posts.
EnterpriseDB (“EDB”), the leader in accelerating Postgres® in the enterprise, today announced its acquisition of Splitgraph, an early-stage disruptor that provides a Postgres compatible serverless SQL API for building data driven applications from hundreds of datasources. This move is seen as a meaningful step in…
Hard drive failure rates on an annualized and quarterly basis for 139,867 hard drives by make and manufacturer.
“The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just inertia. Developers might say they prefer to run PostgreSQL to proprietary alternatives (and they do), but enterprises have…
Prisma 2 Beta introduced type-safe database access with Prisma Client, updated docs, and a clearer path toward production readiness.
Recently while conducting some research, I found myself down the path of Google Analytics ID's as well as other analytics services. I was investigating ways to not only identify varying analytics code in sites, but to correlate them with ot…
Update June 1, 2021 – Amazon Location Service is now generally available and includes routing and raster (satellite) maps. You can easily and securely add maps, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to your applications. Read more about the new features in our new blog post here or try it now in the console. We…
Visualizing the exponential growth of COVID-19 across the world.
In the previous post we have seen how to visualize a time series data. In this post we will discuss how to do a time series modelling using ARMA and ARIMA models. Here AR stands for Auto-Regressive and MA stands for Moving Average
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A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
Today we’re introducing Pebble, a RocksDB-inspired and RocksDB compatible key-value store written in Go that brings greater stability to CockroachDB.
Sponsoring this project will help achieve swift completion and ensure the maintenance of psycopg2, psycopg3 and other related projects.
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in …
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
Millions of tiny databases, Brooker et al., NSDI’20 This paper is a real joy to read. It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of …
Materialize offers a streaming data warehouse for real-time analytics & interoperability with millisecond latency, revolutionizing data handling.
A look into how Python is used to bring your favorite movies to the big screen.
Last year (2019), we released the simjson library. It is a C++ library available under a liberal license (Apache) that can parse JSON documents very fast. How fast? We reach and exceed 3 gigabytes per second in many instances. It can also parse millions of small JSON documents per second. The new version is much ……
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
Today, The New York Times has made one of the most comprehensive datasets of coronavirus cases in the United States publicly available in response to requests from researchers, scientists…
A complete guide to building end-to-end machine learning pipelines, from training to deployment, with Metaflow and Cortex
An overview of some of the reasons Snowflake is trading at 150x its revenue.
A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.
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Learn how to leverage unlabeled data using FixMatch for semi-supervised learning
Key learnings about how to get the best performance from GCP, AWS, and Azure based on original research and conversations with the big three.
E ver since I released rayshader to the public, there’s been one question that comes up time and time again: “How do I use rayshader to overlay satellite imagery onto a 3D surface?” And I can see why: 3D maps with real satellite images are super cool, and there are few detailed tutorials out there on how it’s done in…
