Databases

Databases

Postgres internals, isolation levels, replication, pgvector, DuckDB, CDC.

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ARTICLE · 01

DuckDB Practical Uses

Local analytics embedded OLAP CSV crunching.

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ARTICLE · 02

Postgres Logical Replication Use Cases

Beyond HA — sharding migration CDC.

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ARTICLE · 03

Materialized Views in Postgres

Refresh strategies and concurrent refresh patterns.

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ARTICLE · 04

MongoDB: When It Actually Fits

And when Postgres JSONB is the better answer.

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ARTICLE · 05

MySQL vs Postgres in 2026

When MySQL still wins.

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ARTICLE · 06

pgvector at 100M Scale

HNSW tuning partitioning hybrid filtering.

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ARTICLE · 07

Postgres Index Strategies

B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN — when each one wins.

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ARTICLE · 08

Postgres Isolation Levels

Read committed repeatable read serializable.

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ARTICLE · 09

Redis Data Structures

Beyond strings — sorted sets streams and HyperLogLog.

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ARTICLE · 10

Redis Persistence Modes

RDB, AOF, none — pick by what you can lose.

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ARTICLE · 11

ScyllaDB vs Cassandra

C++ rewrite trade-offs and operational differences.

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ARTICLE · 12

Sharding Strategies Compared

Hash range and directory-based with the gotchas of each.

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ARTICLE · 13

TimescaleDB vs InfluxDB

Both target time-series; the trade-offs are real.

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ARTICLE · 14

TimescaleDB vs InfluxDB vs Prometheus

Long-term storage vs real-time monitoring.

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ARTICLE · 15

When to Pick Cassandra

Write-heavy multi-region with eventual consistency.

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ARTICLE · 16

When to Pick DynamoDB

Single-table design and access pattern modeling.

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ARTICLE · 17

When to Pick Postgres

The default-good choice and when it isn't enough.

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