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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-07 Cached

pgrust 0.2 rebuilds the Postgres query engine with batching, operator fusion, and SIMD, achieving 300x faster analytical queries and 30% faster OLTP than Postgres.

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The DISTINCT in Your COUNT

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-06 Cached

This article explains why PostgreSQL disables parallel query for count(DISTINCT) aggregates, causing full-table sorts and disk spills, and compares it to the parallel-friendly count(*).

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Just One Function, 10x Faster? Reading a Rust Performance PR

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-08-06 Cached

A deep-dive blog post walks through a Rust performance PR in GreptimeDB that makes Prometheus read conversion 10x faster, with benchmark reproduction and code analysis.

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ISEE: Interactive Semantic Enrichment for Database Fields

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2026-08-05 Cached

This paper introduces ISEE, an interactive system that uses LLM-based agents to assess and collaboratively enrich the semantic quality of database field descriptions, reducing cognitive load and improving downstream tasks like entity linking.

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@Greptime: GreptimeDB v1.2.0-beta.1 is out. 205 changes, 259 commits, 22 contributors. The headline items: JSON2 as a data type, P…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-08-04 Cached

GreptimeDB v1.2.0-beta.1 is released with major features including JSON2 as a structured column type, Prometheus Remote Write v2 with native histograms, dictionary-encoded series keys for faster queries, and additional hardening/breaking changes.

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@paulg: Now that is a graph. Especially for a company 6 years old.

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-08-04 Cached

Paul Graham highlights a graph showing Supabase now deploys over 1 million new Postgres databases every week, a notable milestone for a six-year-old company.

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Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-03 Cached

Andy Pavlo, a renowned database professor from Carnegie Mellon, joins ClickHouse to establish and lead ClickHouse Labs, a new research group focused on advancing database technology and integrating innovations into ClickHouse and PostgreSQL.

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@Azure: Scale PostgreSQL reads the easy way. In #AzureFriday, @shanselman and Paula Berenguel show how PostgreSQL Flexible Serv…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-31 Cached

Azure Friday episode with Scott Hanselman and Paula Berenguel demonstrates scaling read-heavy PostgreSQL workloads on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server using read replicas and virtual endpoints for failover, following the same pattern that powers ChatGPT.

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

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-07-31 Cached

DuckDB is introducing asynchronous I/O for Parquet and CSV files in v2.0, improving remote storage query performance by avoiding blocking worker threads during data fetches.

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

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-07-31 Cached

Rivet engineers detail how they built a zero-disk, S3-tiered storage engine for SQLite, enabling isolated databases with instant startup, low-latency writes, point-in-time recovery, and bottomless storage for millions of Actors.

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@Docker: Docker Captain @nickjanetakis published a great guide on backing up PostgreSQL in Docker, covering local storage and le…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-31 Cached

Docker shares a comprehensive guide by Nick Janetakis on backing up PostgreSQL in Docker, covering local storage, S3, and the open-source Plakar tool for reliable daily backups and restores.

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Making Postgres queues scale

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-07-30 Cached

A detailed technical blog post explaining how to scale PostgreSQL-backed queues using SKIP LOCKED and proper transaction isolation levels, achieving 30K workflow executions per second.

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@GoogleCloudTech: If you're using AlloyDB and want a quick way to build an AI agent with your data, use the remote MPC server! This codel…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-30 Cached

Google Cloud provides a codelab for using the remote MCP server with AlloyDB to quickly build an AI agent that can query your database.

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@vlad_mihalcea: A beginner's guide to JTA Transaction Type https://vladmihalcea.com/jta-transaction-type/…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-30 Cached

Vlad Mihalcea explains how the JTA transaction type works, including the 2PC protocol and how to use JTA with Spring for global transactions across multiple data sources such as PostgreSQL and Ehcache.

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@alibaba_cloud: One PolarDB, one MemOS—persistent, never-blackout memory for AI. PolarDB & MemTensor launch a one-stop AI memory soluti…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-30 Cached

Alibaba Cloud launches a one-stop AI memory solution combining PolarDB, MemOS, and MemTensor, offering relational, vector, and graph retrieval in a single PolarDB-PG instance, reducing P99 latency by up to 89.2%.

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PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-07-29 Cached

A detailed technical analysis of PostgreSQL's MVCC design, its known drawbacks like write amplification and vacuum overhead, and a comparison to alternatives that shows all database engines face similar fundamental trade-offs.

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@KirkDBorne: It’s a new era for databases! See what’s new with MySQL and where it is heading: https://odbms.org/blog/2026/07/a-new-e…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-29 Cached

Oracle announces a new era for MySQL, moving previously commercial features into the Community Edition and introducing a governance model to rebuild community trust, with the release of MySQL 9.7.0 LTS.

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@gudanglifehack: SQL Project Series #19 Logistics & Shipment Analytics Analyze shipments, warehouses, delivery performance, customers, a…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-29 Cached

A SQL tutorial for building a logistics and shipment analytics database, covering schema design, sample data, and key business KPIs for supply chain optimization.

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@MongoDB: A legacy stack wasn’t going to power an AI-native future. https://mongodb.social/6011BEai8U founder Samantha McBride sh…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-27 Cached

Samantha McBride's company migrated from a legacy stack to MongoDB to build a flexible financial services platform, enabling easier AI agent deployment without client data restructuring.

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PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-07-27 Cached

PGSimCity is a 3D interactive model that visualizes the inner workings of the PostgreSQL database engine, providing an educational tool for understanding its architecture.

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