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Cassandra is a Dynamo system; like Riak, it divides a hash ring into a several chunks, and keeps N replicas of each chunk on different nodes. It uses tunable quorums, hinted handoff, and active anti-entropy to keep replicas up to date. Unlike the Dynamo paper and some of its peers, Cassandra eschews vector clocks in…
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Want to read about the acceleration we are seeing in our society in the area of mobility? Read our new book ‘Forward’. Updated June 9, 2020. Today, Tesla Motors published their 2019 Imp…
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion.
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.
By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform ...
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
We take a look at the hard drive performance of over 65,000 hard drives ranging from 2TB to 8TB drives. Find out the best performers.
Cloud Memorystore is fully compatible with open source Redis, letting you migrate your applications to Google Cloud with zero code changes.
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial results to produce the final answer.
Impressed by the graphs on popular site FiveThirtyEight? This quick tutorial gets you started making your own eye-catching visualizations.
How we manage schema changes at Discourse minimizing downtime
This is my first article in a two-part series introducing stock data analysis using R.
Now in its third year, the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs compares AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) to tell realistic performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.
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 …
The 2020 Cloud Report compares AWS, GCP, and Azure on microbenchmarks and customer-like-workloads to understand performance tradeoffs within each cloud.
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
At BigML we believe that over the next few years automated, data-driven decisions and data-driven applications are going to change the world. In fact, we think it will be the biggest shift in busi…
Many companies are running old Postgres versions and missing out on many improvements. The reasons: Postgres works and upgrades suck.
Thoughts about why relational databases are not a bad choice when starting a new project.
Modern AI rewards being very weird.
Postgres 16 introduces quite a few improvements to the query planner and makes many SQL queries run faster than they did on previous versions of PostgreSQL. This post is a deep dive into 10 of the improvements, including code blocks and comparisons of query plan output between Postgres 15 & Postgres 16.
Who's the customer, anyway?
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.
Price Intelligence experience scraping over 100 billion product pages. Learn the best practices and demands of extracting product data from e-commerce stores.
A recent Twitter poll asked What is your favorite upcoming feature of PostgreSQL V10? In this admittedly unscientific survey, "better para...
