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Mosaic: Processing a trillion-edge graph on a single machine Maass et al., EuroSys’17 Unless your graph is bigger than Facebook’s, you can process it on a single machine. With the incep…
One way to measure the magnitude of a bank's failure is by the amount of assets the bank held. At the time it failed, SVB's collapse was the second largest American bank failure of all time, and the largest since 2008.
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What Postgres for Everything means to a dev deploying all sorts of databases. Spoiler: it’s about collapsing your stack and keeping it simple.
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I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.
After the success of using agents to improve query performance through autoresearch , I wanted to try something more ambitious. I rewrote PostHog's…
Lossless compression of a target model's KV cache by up to 4×, using a cheaper predictor model to drive an arithmetic coder.
It was 5:17pm today, just as I was wrapping up work for the day, and my manager pinged me with the following chat: <manager>: Hi Jeremy – we have a <other team> ticket – esc…
Build a retrieval system with semantic, full-text, and fuzzy search in Postgres to be used as a backbone in RAG pipelines.
This report describes a recent effort that the RethinkDB team took to measure our database product, RethinkDB, under different workloads and in different clustering configurations. We seek to provide a general overview of RethinkDB’s performance metrics for a variety of workloads and potential use cases. In this…
Customers ask us for p99 (99th percentile) of metrics pretty frequently. We plan to add such a feature to Database Performance Monitor (DPM)(more on that later). But a lot of the time, when customers make this request, they have something very specific, and different, ...
Supabase recently contributed to the OpenAI Retrieval Plugin repo with a Postgres and a Supabase implementation to help developers build ChatGPT plugins using pgvector.
How much data is enough for observability? Learn the key pillars that describe your data and underpin data observability practices in 2024.
The ListenBrainz team has been working hard on moving our primary listen store from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB , and today at UTC 16:00 we’re going to make the switch.
A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology
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Many users of Python deprioritize performance in favor of soft benefits like ergonomics, business value, and simplicity. Users who prioritize performance typically end up on faster compiled languages like C++ or Java.
MariaDB 10.1 not only contains tons of new features, it has also been polished to deliver top performance. The biggest improvement has been achieved for scalability on massively multithreaded hardware. The following numbers show the throughput for a simplified sysbench OLTP benchmark on MariaDB-10.1.8 compared to…
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 16 is now [available for download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/). This …
