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Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

38 points by greghn 25 days ago | 6 comments

A Database Architects blog post on making optimistic lock coupling safe for scalable concurrent data structures like trees on many-core CPUs.

Comparing Integers and Doubles(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

19 points by pfent 11 months ago | 9 comments

Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

461 points by greghn 1 year ago | 103 comments

Blog post describing solving every Advent of Code 2024 puzzle in pure SQL, with a full recursive-query solution for one day shown as an example.

C++ exception performance three years later(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

73 points by gpderetta 1 year ago | 51 comments

B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

155 points by greghn 2 years ago | 67 comments

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

Fun with Char in SQL(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

38 points by greghn 3 years ago | 13 comments

The Great CPU Stagnation(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

237 points by greghn 3 years ago | 197 comments