Grab Redesigns Counter Service Storage for 50% Lower P99 Latency
Grab migrated its high-volume Counter Service from a wide column database to Aerospike using storage abstraction, shadow traffic, data parity valida…
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Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software
Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant rep…
Meta’s ZGateway Cuts ZippyDB Connections 19x While Handling 1B+ Operations per Second
Meta has introduced ZGateway, a stateless proxy for ZippyDB that centralizes connection management, traffic routing, caching, load balancing, and ad…
AWS Introduces Foreign Key Constraints in Aurora DSQL
AWS recently announced that Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints, allowing applications to enforce referential integrity directly in the…
Uber Redesigns M3DB Sharding with Subclusters to Limit Failure Impact
Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The…
Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2
The database platform Harper advocates for a single-runtime architecture that keeps application code and data together, with its benchmark against a…
How PGSimCity Turns PostgreSQL Complexity Into a Virtual City 3D Simulation
Nikolay Samokhvalov has developed PGSimCity, an open-source educational tool that visualises PostgreSQL mechanics as a 3D spatial simulation in the…
Stripe Uses Graph Search and State Machines to Automate Database Remediation
The engineering team at Stripe recently described how they automated database incident recovery by modeling their global infrastructure as a graph.…
Wiz Discloses CosmosEscape, and Practitioners Debate What Customers Could Have Done
Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chain that escaped Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin sandbox and reached a platform-wide key granting read and write…
Presentation: Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems
Murat Demirbas discusses the shift toward disaggregated cloud database architectures driven by cloud economics. He explains how decoupling compute f…
Presentation: Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li discuss why external orchestrators decrease reliability and how to use your existing database for durable execution. They sh…
Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression
DoltHub has recently released Dolt 2.0, a major update to the open source version-controlled SQL database. The latest major version adds automatic s…
AlloyDB Ships Proxy Models That Replace LLM Calls with Local Inference Inside the Database
Google shipped AlloyDB AI functions GA with a proxy model architecture that trains a lightweight local model from LLM outputs, then runs queries at…
Netflix Cuts Cassandra Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds with Dynamic Partition Splitting
Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven appr…
ExtendDB: Open Source Amazon DynamoDB Compatible Adapter with Pluggable Storage Backends
AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting w…
Cloudflare Identifies Query Planning Bottleneck in ClickHouse
Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The tea…
TypeORM Reaches 1.0 After Nearly a Decade, Signalling Renewed Maintenance
TypeORM 1.0 is the first major release of the open-source TypeScript and JavaScript ORM since its inception in 2016. This version modernizes platfor…
Presentation: Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing
Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architectur…