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Durable Objects without Cloudflare, on the database you already run

Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug

Solving the 1+N query problem

Your executable is a SQLite database

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

Poisoned Postgres connection pools

capri: Type-safe, atomic Gleam bindings for Khepri, the modern distributed database for the BEAM

SQLite for Everything

Things I want in a modern relational query language

Tsampi BFT: Leaderless One-Round Voting with Parameterized Finality

Tsampi BFT is a leaderless Byzantine fault-tolerant state-replication protocol with one Vote round per Proposed Block and exact-lineage finality in…

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

Write a SQL Optimizer using Egg (2023)

SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

Modeling State Transitions in Postgres

The FastLanes Unified Transport Layout

Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower

Переполнение диска в БД: обзор сценариев и механизмов защиты

База данных — бизнес-критический компонент любой ИТ-инфраструктуры, поэтому вопрос обеспечения ее доступности и отказоустойчивости обычно находится…

Twenty Years of Bigtable

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

How We Built a Zero-Disk, S3-Tiered Storage Engine for SQLite

We've put a lot of work in to building our SQLite v2 storage engine for Rivet Actors over the past 7 months. This post is barely scratching the surf…

PostgreSQL MVCC: tradeoffs compared to other engines

SQLite WAL Mode Can Lock Short-Lived Readers

The secret life of data in Valkey

How MVCC and Transactions Work in RocksDB

Postgres 19 Compression: from pglz to LZ4

Who needs a real-time database?

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Extending MVCC to be serializable, in TLA+ (2024)

Repeatable Read vs Snapshot Isolation

Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP