The numeric type has existed in Postgres for more than 25 years. Over that time, it has undergone many optimisations and refinements. And yet operations on this type - aggregation in particular - still look rather inefficient.Since the…
MongoDB 9.0 is here. Strip away the marketing around AI, Atlas, and “the best version ever built”, and MongoDB 9.0 starts to look a lot like MongoDB 8.4. Sure, there are some useful changes, but I don’t see a single feature that…
Citus already scaled the workers horizontally. Now the coordinators too I’ve heard more than once that Citus is not a good sharding technology/architecture because it’s limited to one coordinator. That’s not completely untrue: A single…
In October 2014, a developer wrote to a PostgreSQL mailing list with a problem. His employer’s open source office required a signed contributor license agreement before he could contribute, and he could not find PostgreSQL’s. Tom Lane…