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  • No, Iceberg won’t fix your data stack.

    By Zhou Sun In Engineering 1164 words 6 min

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    No, Iceberg won’t fix your data stack.

    Life is expectations vs reality. Here is one for Apache Iceberg – a favorite amongst the data community. Expectations: Iceberg is the solution to all my data pains See, the core of Iceberg is pretty neat: Keep all data in object storage in open file …

    Life is expectations vs reality. Here is one for Apache Iceberg – a favorite amongst the data community. Expectations: Iceberg is the solution to all my data pains See, the core of Iceberg is pretty neat: Keep all data in object storage in open file …

  • HTAP is Dead

    By Zhou Sun In Engineering 937 words 5 min

    Zhou Sunhtaplakehousepostgresqlmusings

    HTAP is Dead

    This blog is inspired by Jordan Tigani’s blog titled “Big Data is Dead”. Jordan and I actually spent some time building an HTAP database at SingleStore. The good old days (’80s) Back in the ’80s, one relational database did everything. Transactions …

    This blog is inspired by Jordan Tigani’s blog titled “Big Data is Dead”. Jordan and I actually spent some time building an HTAP database at SingleStore. The good old days (’80s) Back in the ’80s, one relational database did everything. Transactions …

  • What does Analytics in Postgres really mean?

    By Zhou Sun In Engineering 771 words 4 min

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    What does Analytics in Postgres really mean?

    Few areas in databases are hotter right now than extending Postgres to support analytics queries. This isn’t a particularly novel area either –– there have been plenty of attempts in the last decade: Here is what it means to our customers –– and why …

    Few areas in databases are hotter right now than extending Postgres to support analytics queries. This isn’t a particularly novel area either –– there have been plenty of attempts in the last decade: Here is what it means to our customers –– and why …

  • Things we learnt

    By Pranav Aurora In Engineering 446 words 3 min

    Pranav Aurorapostgresqlicebergmusings

    Things we learnt

    The title should really be “Things we learnt, the hard way”. As we start this new journey, we spent some time thinking about the axioms of data today. These are things we (or no one for that matter) can dispute. 1. If Postgres can do it, Postgres …

    The title should really be “Things we learnt, the hard way”. As we start this new journey, we spent some time thinking about the axioms of data today. These are things we (or no one for that matter) can dispute. 1. If Postgres can do it, Postgres …