This is a post in a series about the Apache CouchDB 3.0 release. Check out the other posts in this series. In early 2019, the IBM/Cloudant team proposed a major change to CouchDB: replace the stora…

Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 4. a database/sql driver

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When you run queries in ClickHouse , you might notice that the profiler often shows the LZ_decompress_fast function near the top. What is going on? This question had us wondering how to choose the...

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We are facing some interesting times at work as we are going to start changing our technology stack in the near future. Most of our Oracle ...

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Explore some of the performance enhancements in YugabyteDB 2.1, and the results for the YCSB and TPC-C benchmarks

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PostgreSQL provides five datetime data types, including timestamp/timestamp with time zone, date, time, interval and time range(tsrange, tstzrange, daterange). This article briefs them, talks about gotchas and recommendations like why not store every datetime in UTC.

ScyllaDB has made a name for itself as a fast drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra. Now it ups the ante, offering Amazon DynamoDB compatibility and new features, promising superior performance, lower total cost of ownership and no vendor lock-in

We want to give you a database that allows you to quickly and simply build and manage data-intensive applications in the cloud—without worrying about the performance, scale or resilience of those apps. To support that mission, our latest release includes updates that let you build fast and build to ...

Firebird SQL: The true open-source relational database