The Adoption of CedarDB's Optimized String Implementation Across Database Systems
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Summary
The article discusses the complexity of string implementations in programming languages, explaining that strings are more than just sequences of characters. It focuses on CedarDB's custom string type that was originally developed for their database system and has since been adopted by other systems like DuckDB, Apache Arrow, and Polars. The article explores why different programming languages have different string implementations and how CedarDB's optimized string format has gained industry adoption despite being initially unexpected.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledGerman Strings are conceptually very simple: It's essentially just a sequence of characters, right?
Why, then, does every programming language have their own slightly different string implementation?
It turns out that there is a lot more to a string than 'just a sequence of characters'
We're no different and built our own custom string type that is highly optimized for data processing
Even though we didn't expect it when we first wrote about it in our inaugural Umbra research paper, a lot of new systems adopted our format
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