Some interesting tech. out of Microsoft Research - a high perf. redis compatible cache. This is from the same folks who built the FASTER key-value store - so I expect their benchmark results to stand up to production testing. microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Check out this sneak peak of the new serverless technology I've been working on: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

I learned today that TimescaleDB deprecated their distributed (multi-node) support: github.com/timescale/time… It reminded me that distributed databases come with a cost: link.medium.com/EqYDWxaeFIb

Microsoft is investing heavily in Postgres - both in open source and in the Azure Postgres managed service. Expect to see our work in both areas accelerate going forward. For more details check out this great post by Claire Giordano ✨ techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

Microsoft Research has been doing research on index tuning and autonomous databases for decades. This is the first time that research has been applied to Postgres (for Azure Postgres). SQL Server has been taking advantage of this research for years. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

Nice to see that we played a small part in SQL database history at SingleStore (aka MemSQL) RE: the NewSQL movement that was part of the founding of the company. I believe we are the only NewSQL era database to hit $100 million in revenue.

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From cheese factory to Postgres committer (now part of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team). I've only worked with David a little bit, but he always entertains my "Postgres newb" ideas and questions.

This is a great start on getting a world class columnstore engine (DuckDB) integrated into Postgres. Its missing storage integration right now (can't store data locally with PG and have it be WAL logged, backed up, replicated, etc.). Maybe someday...

Had a similar fear: "Bluntly, founders are at grave risk of misinterpreting Graham’s "Founders Mode" to be a license to micromanage their teams, descending into the kind of manic seagull management that inhibits a team rather than empowering it."

I'd agree that database builders have stopped considering if using consensus for data replication is the right design for their system (and that in many cases it's the wrong design): link.medium.com/trbk9OvWtNb I blame the popularity of the Spanner paper (it is a great paper)!

Neon - Serverless Postgres on Microsoft Azure is live: neon.tech/blog/first-azu…

The DiskANN vector search algorithm developed by Microsoft research is now available in Azure Postgres (more accurate and robust indexing vs vanilla pg_vector.. see blog for details). Not available in open source just yet...stay tuned. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

Are there any SQL databases other than the newly announced Aurora DSQL that use optimistic concurrency control as a default (or only) option ? I’m not aware of any…

A step towards an open-source standard DocumentDB API (everyone aims to be "mostly" MongoDB compatible today...and you can do that with this project too) opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/01/2…

It’s strange how quickly software companies go from making engineers accessible to customers to hiding them behind sales / marketing / evangelists /account management / customer support / customer success / executives / developer relations / lawyers / user research / etc. It’s