
pnpm 11 RC has been released, featuring significant changes in performance, security, and configuration. Key updates include an SQLite-backed store index, tighter security defaults, and a consolidated build script setting. It now requires…


We recently looked at how various open-source database engines maintain their secondary indexes (in a previous analysis) and found significant differences. The maintenance of indexes is not the only aspect where storage engines differ,…

The latest release of the Percona Operator for MySQL, 1.1.0, is here. It brings point-in-time recovery, incremental backups, zstd backup compression, configurable asynchronous replication retries, and a set of stability fixes. This post…
Robert Haas’s pg_plan_advice patch set, proposed for PostgreSQL 19, is where the twenty-year argument from Part 2 has landed — or is trying to. It is not pg_hint_plan brought into core. It is a different thing, with different mechanics, a…