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Relational databases like Postgres provide many unique features, specifically atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID), but providing durability has always been a challenge. Though computers originally used non-volatile…
Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The approach bounds shard dependencies, preserves replica isolation, and uses a greedy…
During the beta phase, the only way to run a Neon Function was to send it an HTTP request. That works well for jobs triggered by your app, but not so much for backend jobs. If you wanted to pull an external API into Postgres every 15…
TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 now supports DISTANCE() for vector similarity scoring directly in SQL (COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, MANHATTAN, DOT metrics). This is the compute primitive you need to rank or filter embeddings by similarity…