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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DuckDB 2.0 Pushes Whole Queries Through ADBC–10–11× Faster on PostgreSQL

query.farm · 15 points · 0 comments

Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model

poltora.dev · 2 points · 28 comments

TablePro: A native, open-source database client for macOS

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

QueryBrew: System-Agnostic SQL-to-SQL Query Optimization [pdf]

vldb.org · 33 points · 10 comments

WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

clickhouse.com · 39 points · 10 comments

Postgres Calculations and the Ambiguity of Null

crunchydata.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

clickhouse.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale

neki.dev · 98 points · 4 comments

EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

eterdb.com · 3 points · 20 comments

Dbmask – Discover, mask, and verify sensitive data in SQL databases

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Solo Developer donates 40k to Postgres

postgresql.org · 4 points · 1 comments

Busabase for DeepSeek Harness: An Agent database that runs apps and skills

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

How Much Redistribution Will AI Require?

marginalrevolution.com · 5 points · 0 comments

I'm not a PostgREST fan this is why I'm building an alternative

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

PostgreSQL to pull property graphs from v19 after design flaws

freenode.net · 5 points · 0 comments

The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity?

nature.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Mnemiq – Open-source text-to-SQL tuned to your own database

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

InverSQL: Build SQL interactively in inverse

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres

solidobjects.dev · 4 points · 24 comments

Notifyd – notification queue on Postgres alone (Rust, MCP, no UI)

rmzlb.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Uncensored Open-Weight Models: Redistribution as the Persistence Layer

arxiv.org · 4 points · 0 comments

PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour

victoriametrics.com · 29 points · 23 comments

Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

github.com · 7 points · 64 comments

Postgres Calculations and the Ambiguity of Null

crunchydata.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Blunderbase: A Personal Chess Database

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

TenantLayer – Multi-Tenancy for Spring Boot and Postgres

tenantlayer.io · 2 points · 1 comments

Declick – Turn an OpenAPI Spec, MCP Server or SQLite DB into a CLI

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database

blog.glazer.ee · 3 points · 7 comments

Model – A Minimal Python ORM for MySQL and SQLite

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (1982)

bkent.net · 14 points · 0 comments