Here is a query that shows up in every analytics workload: SELECT count(DISTINCT user_id) FROM events; It looks like the cheapest possible thing: count the distinct users. On a machine with cores to spare you would expect Postgres to throw…

DynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and requires zero infrastructure management.
Vacuum is not a problem as we can help PostgreSQL avoid it with HOT updates. A HammerDB TPROC-C benchmark shows how tuning fillfactor for tables eliminates vacuum and reduces the bloat growth.
If you are a traditional database administrator (DBA) transitioning to Kubernetes, the cloud-native ecosystem can feel like a series of personal attacks on your workflow. For years, your terminal was your home. If a query was running slow,…