Simulating Database Performance Under Load with Speedscale

New Bigtable in-memory tier for sub-millisecond read latency

Performance Benchmark: Polars vs DuckDB vs Daft vs Spark on 650GB Delta Lake Dataset

The article presents a performance comparison benchmark of four data processing frameworks (Polars, DuckDB, Daft, and Spark) on a 650GB Delt

Command-Line Tools Outperform Hadoop by 235x for Moderate-Scale Data Processing

The article discusses how command-line tools can be significantly faster than Hadoop clusters for processing moderate-sized datasets, using

Optimizing Database Performance with Linux io_uring: Research on Effective Implementation Strategies

This research paper examines how modern database management systems can effectively leverage Linux's io_uring interface for efficient, low-o

Benchmarking Redis vs PostgreSQL for caching: An experimental comparison

A technical experiment comparing Redis and PostgreSQL (using unlogged tables) for caching use cases in API servers. The author runs both dat

Rethinking Database Usage: When File-Based Storage Might Be Better Than Traditional Databases

The article challenges conventional wisdom about database usage, arguing that databases are essentially just files on disk and that for many