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ozgrakkurt • today at 4:44 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

At least they have useful technical information in it. Personally really like reading these blog posts.

Measurements and context is so situational that it would be useless anyway imo.

It is not like any DB company is writing blog posts with benchmarks compared to hardware limits. DuckDB had blog posts that has sentences like "You are doing it wrong if you are not using HTTP api on your database in 2026", last time I saw their blog.

I also think object storage is bad in this case. And rust is no a no-no for a database project like this, because it is not ergonomic to do static allocation and arena allocators in rust. And parquet is trash for performance because of many reasons like supported compression formats etc.


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eru • today at 6:02 AM

> And rust is no a no-no for a database project like this, because it is not ergonomic to do static allocation and arena allocators in rust.

I'm not sure ergonomics matter that much these days, when your agent can write the tedious bits?