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Loading Lakes

Optimizing loading Great Lake tables with DataFusion

Delta LakeDatabases+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

My Journey Optimizing a CUDA Kernel with Polar Signals

A storage engineer's descent into warp stalls, memory throttles, and aligned stores

GPUDatabases+1
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

Great Lakes: A Delta Lake Fork

Our updates to Delta Lake Table Format

Column DatabaseDelta Lake+1
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

Questioning an Interface: From Parquet to Vortex

Breaking free from the shackles of interface-imposed performance limitations

DatabasesDatafusion+2
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

Das Problem mit German Strings

And why I don't want my database to choose the best encoding for me (yet)

DatabasesColumn Database+3
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater Of State Machines

How we designed our database for complete control over concurrency, time, randomness, and failure injection.

TestingDeterministic Simulation Testing+3
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

New year new database

Bringing what we've learned to our next generation database.

Column DatabaseDatabases
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

Best Laid Plans

What we learned from building a database

Column DatabaseFrostDB+2
Author:Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen

(Mostly) Deterministic Simulation Testing in Go

How we used WASM and some Go runtime modifications to run deterministic simulation tests against FrostDB

TestingGo+5
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

Designing Your Indexes for Better Database Performance

How we improved our database query performance by 80% and the intuition behind the changes that led to this improvement

ParcaDatabases+3
Author:Alfonso Subiotto Marqués
Alfonso Subiotto Marqués

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