1951
If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
Databases are fabulous resources. Of course, we’ll abuse them in ways that cause challenges.
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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 4,224 posts.
1952
Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill
Using SSDB to solve the Redis RAM limitation.
1953
Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
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GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails
GoodJob is a new Postgres-based, multithreaded, second-generation ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.
1956
Versioning data in Postgres? Testing a Git like approach
KQBD Vip - trực tiếp kết quả bóng đá hôm nay cập nhật trực tuyến theo Nano giây, kết quả đêm qua & rạng sáng nay từ 2.000+ giải đấu toàn thế giới.
1957
Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia
Yesterday I was pointed to a blog post describing how to answer an interesting project: how many generations from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth II ? Alfred the Great was a king in England at the end of the 9th century, and Elizabeth II is the current Queen of England (and a bit more).
1958
Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists
On February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. His creator downloaded encrypted stock market data, trained…
1959
RethinkDB 1.3 is out, now available on OS X
We’ve released RethinkDB 1.3 ( Metropolis ) which has a large number of enhancements, and adds support for OS X and several other platforms. As of the 1.3 release, the server can now be installed on the following platforms:
1960
Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
Lately, there has been a lot of excitement around Durable Execution (DE) engines. The basic idea of DE is to take (potentially long-running) multi-step workflows, such as processing a purchase order …
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TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data
Get an in-depth look at how two leading time-series databases stack up. We compare data models, query language, reliability, performance, and more.
1963
Sampling with SQL
Sampling is one of the most powerful tools you can wield to extract meaning from large datasets. It lets you reduce a massive pile of data into a small yet representative dataset that’s fast and easy to use.
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The Federalist Papers: Author Identification Through K-Means Clustering
Using K-means clustering on writing style to classify disputed Federalist Papers authorship.
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Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions
How a mysterious stall in database queries uncovered a performance limitation with PostgreSQL.
1970
Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud the way your application experiences it
By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager Like all good IT organizations, you religiously measure the performance and availability of your ser...
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SQL reserved words – An empirical list
These words cause problems as table or column name
1973
CTEs as lookup tables
How to use a CTE instead of complicated CASE expressions
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1975
A Graph-Based Firebase
In A Database in the Browser , I wrote that the schleps we face as UI engineers are actually database problems in disguise [1] . This begged the question: would a database-looking solution solve them?
1976
Researcher questions years of his own work with a reexamination of fMRI data
Hundreds of published studies over the last decade have claimed it's possible to predict an individual’s patterns of thoughts and feelings by scanning their brain in an MRI machine as they perform some mental tasks.
1977
Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB
We are happy to announce a new preview feature that adds support for Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, enabling DuckDB users to connect to Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with ease.
1978
How to Scale PostgreSQL on AWS: Learnings from Citus Cloud
Lessons learned in scaling out the PostgreSQL database in the cloud using Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that is also available as a fully-managed database as a service. From operational pain points like HA to disaster recovery to backups to monitoring and logging and alerts.
1979
Exploratory data analysis for humanities data
The course was very much an experiment, an attempt to combine literary study with computing. The 17 surviving students were largely sophomores. About two thirds of them were hard-core humanities majors; the rest were potential or actual CS majors or other STEM concentrators. The class met once a week for three hours…
1980
Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms (2014)
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