Best of PostgreSQL — March 2024

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   Hacker News·2y

   Postgres is eating the database world

   PostgreSQL is an advanced, open-source, and extensible data management framework that is capable of competing with Oracle and MySQL. It offers a wide range of analysis-related extensions and has the potential to become a unified, super-converged database. The emergence of PostgreSQL has shifted the paradigms in the database domain, and it is now considered a mainstream best practice. In the future, the focus will be on database extensions and services, and PostgreSQL ecosystem extensions are expected to lead the way towards a monopoly.

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   Hacker News·2y

   teableio/teable: ✨ A Super fast, Real-time, Professional, Developer friendly, No code database

   Teable is a super fast, real-time, professional, developer-friendly, no-code database built on Postgres. It offers a simple, spreadsheet-like interface, supports various data views, and integrates with popular software tools. It aims to meet the evolving demands of modern software development.

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   Vlad Mihalcea·2y

   PostgreSQL Index Types

   This post explores PostgreSQL index types, including B+Tree, Hash, and GIN indexes. It discusses the benefits of using B+Tree indexes for filtering, range scans, and sorting. It explains how Hash indexes are useful for equality checks and saving space. It also explains how GIN indexes can speed up JSON-specific operations. The post concludes by mentioning other index types available in PostgreSQL.

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   Pointer·2y

   bruin-data/ingestr: ingestr is a CLI tool to copy data between any databases with a single command seamlessly.

   Ingestr is a CLI tool that allows you to copy data between databases with a single command, providing features such as incremental loading and easy installation.

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   Lobsters·2y

   A new serverless Postgres platform

   Xata announces the launch of a new serverless Postgres platform, combining the features of Xata with the functionality of Postgres. The platform offers high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency, with a generous free tier. It also introduces logical database branches and integrates with pgroll for zero-downtime schema migrations. The Xata platform provides a data-centric solution with features like file attachments and full-text search.

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   Dreams of Code·2y

   Adding a cache is not as simple as it may seem...

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   ElixirStatus·2y

   Clivern/Lynx: 🐺 A Fast, Secure and Reliable Terraform Backend, Set up in Minutes.

   Lynx is a fast, secure, and reliable Terraform Backend built in Elixir with the Phoenix framework. It provides simplified setup, team collaboration, user-friendly interface, project flexibility, environment management, state versioning, rollback capability, Terraform locking support, RESTful endpoints, automated scheduled backups, snapshot creation, RESTful endpoints documentation, and OAuth2 authentication support.

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   Hacker News·2y

   Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes

   Xenobroom Inc. undergoes a lengthy migration to Kubernetes, resulting in the company forgetting the purpose of their product.

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