Databases stories

Data storage and retrieval remain central to every serious system. This topic covers SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed systems, query engines, and the trade-offs teams make when choosing data infrastructure.

Postgres releases, SQLite appreciation threads, and NewSQL debates regularly dominate HN — this archive preserves them.

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Glider: A single-node vector database with S3 as its only durable state

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

theregister.com · 39 points · 91 comments

Redis now has compressed bitmaps (Roaring)

lemire.me · 6 points · 0 comments

RDST – A local agent that watches Postgres/MySQL for query regressions

github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Arneb – A Trino-compatible distributed SQL engine in Rust

arneb.io · 2 points · 0 comments

PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 Released

postgresql.org · 3 points · 1 comments

Give (low vRAM) local sLLMs codebase-wide context with SQLite (attempt)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

pg_vectorsearch: Scalable Open-Source Vector Search in PostgreSQL

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

RooQL – A semantic layer with no server (Ossie models to SQL)

rooql.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Oxynote – Self-hosted wiki with live Prometheus/SQL charts and reviews

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

PGlite: Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings

github.com · 9 points · 0 comments

A shared, verifiable fix database that AI agents read and write themselves

cuddly-guide-4q6q54rg76653jvxj-8000.app.github.dev · 7 points · 1 comments

Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks

acollectedman.com · 6 points · 8 comments

NabuSQL – Rust Database GUI for MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQLite, Mssql

nabusql.nabu.work · 2 points · 0 comments

Postgres isn't slow, your storage is

clickhouse.com · 23 points · 187 comments

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

github.com · 7 points · 32 comments

We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation

marcobambini.substack.com · 8 points · 1 comments

SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released

sqlalchemy.org · 15 points · 12 comments

SQLite 3.54.0 Released

sqlite.org · 13 points · 2 comments

We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation

marcobambini.substack.com · 5 points · 0 comments

BerryDB – Open-source macOS database client written in Swift and AppKit

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Configstream – Live config for Spring Boot via MongoDB change streams

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Schema – Visual Git Diffs for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite Schemas

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

PgNimbus 1.0, an open-source PostgreSQL client that sends no telemetry

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso

github.com · 11 points · 5 comments

The Query Transformation Pipeline

readyset.io · 5 points · 2 comments

Redis in the Wild: Unexpectedly Bumping into Antirez in His Hometown

orazioscicolone.it · 10 points · 12 comments

A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here

tidesdb.com · 24 points · 34 comments

Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust

github.com · 40 points · 32 comments

Row-level security performance in PostgreSQL, measured

now-next.nl · 4 points · 0 comments