
DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work with the same database over a network. The protocol introduces client-server capabilities to a database that was…

PostgreSQL's `config_file` parameter creates a bootstrap paradox: it tells the server where to find its configuration, but lives on the command line only—never…

The engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques…
PostgreSQL 14 unified query-id computation across all subsystems, but defaulting to always-on would tax every backend.