Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Encoding in Apache Parquet https://lobste.rs/s/dtozf3 #databases
https://parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/09/22/alp-adaptive-lossless-floating-point-encoding-in-apache-parquet/
databases
Efficient and accurate systems for querying unstructured data https://lobste.rs/s/v8atna #pdf #ai #databases
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/fk030tb6783/thesis-augmented.pdf
Redenormalisation: Building a search index, the other way https://lobste.rs/s/gzjcbu #databases
https://slatecave.net/blog/redenormalization/
Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History https://lobste.rs/s/1skdhv #databases #historical #osdev
https://csixty4.medium.com/pick-is-a-living-fossil-of-computer-history-36d74408d557
DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation https://lobste.rs/s/qlhcr5 #pdf #databases
https://andrewxiwu.github.io/public/papers/2019/macrobase-sql-VLDB2019.pdf
Massive Parallel Imports in Neo4j Without Deadlock and Lock Contention https://lobste.rs/s/iyouff #databases
https://medium.com/neo4j/massive-parallel-imports-in-neo4j-without-deadlock-and-lock-contention-2c003a48d49a
The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition) https://lobste.rs/s/ydmw6s #databases #historical #java
https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/23/hibernate-origin-story
Twelve years of distributed SQLite https://lobste.rs/s/rqefcw #databases
https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
VictoriaLogs vs Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SigNoz and ClickStack on structured log ingestion https://lobste.rs/s/76otqu #databases #devops #performance
https://victoriametrics.com/blog/structured-log-ingestion-benchmark/
Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault https://lobste.rs/s/0yxkvs #databases #practices
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
An Introduction to Bε-trees and Write-Optimization https://lobste.rs/s/0ec9yk #databases
https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/oct15/bender
Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 https://lobste.rs/s/drwd4j #databases #testing
https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data (2021) https://lobste.rs/s/7mllxi #pdf #databases #performance
https://db.cit.tum.de/~durner/papers/json-tiles-sigmod21.pdf
Why we're moving our warehouse off DuckDB https://lobste.rs/s/wpahfd #databases
https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb
Designing a planned switchover for minimum disruption https://lobste.rs/s/cwxne0 #databases #distributed
https://planetscale.com/blog/designing-a-planned-switchover-for-minimum-disruption
Join Ordering, Part 1: The Shape of the Search Space https://lobste.rs/s/phvgme #databases
https://deferworks.org/posts/join-ordering/
We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka https://lobste.rs/s/0xfpgo #databases #distributed
https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/quick-fdb-kafka/
Postgres 19 REPACK: Built-In Online Table Bloat Cleanup via @hongminhee https://lobste.rs/s/uutnr5 #databases
https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-19-repack-table-bloat/
Arrows to Arrows, Categories to Queries https://lobste.rs/s/gqis6q #databases #haskell #plt
https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/arrows-to-arrows/
Protocol-aware recovery for consensus-based storage (2018) https://lobste.rs/s/4bzboj #pdf #databases #distributed
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast18/fast18-alagappan.pdf
How Flink's Kafka connector commits offsets to Kafka https://lobste.rs/s/wfw32o #databases #distributed
https://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=6161
We ported the original Doom to SQL https://lobste.rs/s/qf2mtz #databases #games
https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/