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From Christmas Outage to #1 App Store Ranking: An Aura Frames Postgres Scaling Retrospective

We built SmithDB, the data layer for agent observability

Write-heavy sysbench tests, a large server, modern Postgres and MySQL

Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook

Service Bindings - A Better Way to Connect Apps to Databases

Property Graphs

Multigres v0.1 Alpha: an operating system for Postgres

The first public release of "Vitess for PostgreSQL" from Supabase (announced a year ago). Open Source on GitHub (Apache 2.0 license), written in Go. C…

Concurrent device registration without Redis

What are important data systems problems, ignored by research? (2024)

Equivalence of Unicode strings is strange (2016)

5 PostgreSQL locking behaviors that trip people up

Introducing DoomBench - Can Your Data Stack Run DOOM?

The Architecture of BerkeleyDB

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pg_deltax: Apache-licensed time-series extension for PostgreSQL

How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso

Noxu DB, a Rust port of Berkeley DB Java Edition

Noxu provides ACID transactions, a log-structured B+tree, checkpoint-based crash recovery (ARIES), master-replica(s) replication, and XA. I have alway…

Calvin - Determinism, Distributed ACID transactions (2020)

How to Write to SSDs

Welcome to ORDER BY jungle

PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs

SQL’s ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way

How (and why) rqlite takes control of the SQLite Write-Ahead Log

Designing a Custom Query Language for Non-Technical Analysts

Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired

A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

Redis and the Cost of Ambition

Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue

Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra

Redis array type: short story of a long development