Stories by tosh

SAP HANA

Operating System Support for Database Management (1981) [pdf]

Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now

Rows Are Made for Sorting and That's Just What We'll Do (2023) [pdf]

NYC TLC trip record data is a nice training dataset for Data Engineers (2019)

Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

Algorithms for Modern Hardware

McDonald's hit by 'technology outage' in UK, Australia, Japan and China

McDonald's outage shuts some restaurants globally

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

HuggingFace adds special support for GGUF

Data.table: R's data.table package extends data.frame

HyPer: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP High-Performance Database

ClickHouse: Query Execution Pipeline

DuckDB: Move to push-based execution model (2021)

I can't picture things in my mind

The 'royal order' of adjective placement

SIMD / GPU Friendly Branchless Binary Search (2017)

Itanium

Document reranking is powerful, but daunting to get started with