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This article is a personal retrospective on the Pick Operating System, a historical computer system that integrates OS and database features, discussing its origins, technical aspects, and the author's early career experience with it.
This paper presents RecipeDB2, a structured dataset of 128,942 recipes, and a scalable framework using NLP and machine learning to make recipes computable for culinary and nutritional analysis.
GreptimeDB has implemented PromQL natively in its query planner, allowing direct execution and analysis with tools like EXPLAIN ANALYZE without translating it to SQL.
DuckDB-Wasm now supports persistent databases in browsers using the Origin Private File System (OPFS), enabling data to survive page reloads and browser restarts with built-in storage.
TIN is a fast, full-featured full-text search extension for Postgres that supports boolean expressions, fuzzy matching, and concurrent operations, released by PlanetScale as a GA product.
The article reviews the mid-year progress of GreptimeDB's 2026 roadmap, highlighting shipped features like online repartitioning and JSON2 type, and explaining changes in priorities due to production deployments.
Supabase is an open-source Postgres development platform offering a hosted database, automatic API generation, authentication, and AI tools, earning over 109k stars on GitHub for its efficiency and comprehensiveness.
Keewano has launched an AI-Agent Database and announced $12 million in seed funding.
The article describes an experiment where a 4B AI model is trained via fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to optimize Postgres query plans, achieving an 81% faster performance and 44.7% latency reduction across join-heavy queries.
GreptimeDB Enterprise integrates with Apache Iceberg to make tables queryable from Spark, Trino, DuckDB, and other engines without copying data by publishing Iceberg metadata over existing Parquet files.
Antfly has rewritten their search-and-inference database from Go to pure Zig for improved performance and zero dependencies. The article details their technical decisions, first principles, and implementations of vector search algorithms.
Appwrite 2.0 is the second major generation of the open-source cloud platform for developers and agents, featuring a rebuilt engine, relational and schemaless data support, native PostgreSQL and MySQL engines, S3 storage, and a standards-compliant identity provider.
SereneDB is an open-source database that combines ultra-fast full-text search and analytics in one engine, compatible with Postgres and Elastic, and outperforms established systems like Elasticsearch and ClickHouse in benchmarks.
PostgreSQL takes locks on all indexes during query planning, which can cause CPU contention with many indexes, and prepared statements can mitigate this issue.
Benchmark Radar introduces a living database and search engine for AI benchmarks, enabling researchers to discover, retrieve, and analyze evaluation resources across various AI domains.
QueryBrew is a proposed system-agnostic approach for optimizing SQL-to-SQL queries, aiming to improve performance across different database systems.
Supabase grew its annual recurring revenue from $1 million to $170 million in five years, reaching a $10.5 billion valuation through phases as a side project, open-source moat, and AI-era backend infrastructure.
A blog post from PlanetScale discusses the challenges of query planning in massive, sharded databases, aiming to educate readers on database query planners.
Sam Lambert tweets that Unsharded Neki is an extremely powerful tool for running PostgreSQL at any scale and predicts it will become the best method for doing so.
Neki is a sharded Postgres solution by PlanetScale that enables horizontal scaling to hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data with zero-downtime operations.