Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the world
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TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built from scratch with modern distributed systems principles. It uses debits and credits as first-class primitives instead of SQL, achieving massive performance gains by packing 8,190 transactions into a single query. The database is written in Zig, distributed by default with
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Why we need a database that thinks in debits and creditsAn (actually) modern database: distributed by default, why TigerBeetle uses Zig, and handling storage faultsDeterministic Simulation Testing and the VOPRTigerStyle and The Power of TenTry it out for yourselfSort: