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harisund1990

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About harisund1990

I build databases for a living.

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    Comment #48051368

    Meko is the agent-native unified data infrastructure that enables multi-agent systems to learn together, building collective memory, shared knowledge, Conversations and Decision Tr…

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    Comment #45814800

    This is cool to see! Looks like a compete against pg_mooncake which Databricks acquired. But how is this different from pg_duckdb?

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    Comment #44221626

    That's a very big difference which makes this hard to believe. I would expect them to be within 20% of each other. I think I know the trick they used. The 48 core Aurora is the wor…

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    Comment #44091798

    Seems like a perfect use case for a distributed database like YugabyteDB. Have you looked into it?

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    Comment #44091746

    YugabyteDB a distributed postgres database. Think of it as a true drop in replacement for postgres that runs on multiple nodes. It internally does replication, sharding and leader …

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    Comment #44062210

    This is a fully open source MongoDB alternative that offers high availability and horizontal scalability. It's a joint collaboration between YugabyteDB, FerretDB and the Microsoft …

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    Comment #43718744

    Anyone who has had to do a Postgres major upgrade can relate to this

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    Ask HN: Do enterprises now consider the use of C/C++ based databases as bad?

    "What good is an open source database when it’s written in a mix of memory-unsafe language?" A OLTP high performance Relational Database vendor has this section in their competitiv…

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    Comment #42880629

    Is Postgres becoming the new SQL standard? You have the ANSI SQL, but it does not cover a lot of stuff, and everyone has their own variances, and extra features. But, all new DBs l…

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    Comment #42671530

    I love headers but I wish you could split them in two so that private functions and variables can line in the c file. This would help reduce a lot of header bloat as well.

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    Comment #42379040

    Cutis is an extension. That's the best you can get by being outside the core db. If you want true distributed architecture then you need to change the QO, DDL, transaction, even qu…

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    Comment #42374904

    > What we see in cases where someone takes Postgres and replaces the guts (Greenplum, Cloudberry, and of course YDB) is that it becomes a huge effort to keep up with new Postgres v…

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    Comment #41294436

    Yugabyte does automatic sharding

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    Comment #39875641

    It's easier to manage 1 database instead of 1000s

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    Comment #39875340

    The article should be titled "Why Figma HAD TO reinvent the wheel with PostgresSQL". When you have a legacy system and not enough time, or will to move off of it the only option is…

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    Comment #39875280

    Sharding is the easy part. Eventually you need to implement distributed transactions, taking a consistent backup across shards, PITR, resharding, load balancing, and the list goes …