Curious to know if MySQL has any distinct advantages over Postgres at this point.
alexpadula 59 minutes ago [-]
I mean, quite a bit. You use the right tool for the job. To use Postgres for everything is wrong to me. The beauty of MySQL based servers is the internal extensibility where Postgres is still rather lacking. MySQL and MariaDB are caching up on the external extensibility front.
kumarvvr 9 minutes ago [-]
Could you please give me examples of this extensibility.
bratao 59 minutes ago [-]
Finally a replacement for RocksDB / MyRocks.
I want to move from MySQL to Postgres, but without a space optimized storage as the MySQL has in Percona, it is impossible to me.
alexpadula 51 minutes ago [-]
Indeed! Postgres vacuum can be troublesome on lots of write and delete heavy workloads and no way to just set a table to another engine. TidesDB is highly efficient on amplification rather that be write, read, or space for an LSM based engine. Reads are also pretty great with our LSMB+tree hybrid architecture; You can read about TPC-C analysis against InnoDB in MariaDB (larger than memory) and see TidesDB keeping up and even surpassing InnoDB on this very heavy benchmark.
Introducing the first major release of TideSQL for MySQL. A transactional storage engine built from first principles and on modern research that's write and space optimized, highly effective on reads, and offers parity with InnoDB. Do check it out, we would love your thoughts!
dofm 2 hours ago [-]
My thoughts: please, please get someone to rewrite this page from LLM poetry to a real person's writing.
handfuloflight 2 hours ago [-]
As for me, I've copied and pasted the text into Claude, prompted: "Distill key insights" and got everything I needed to know.
In fact... I read most of HN like this nowadays, including the comments.
dofm 1 hours ago [-]
This is really not better. Well… not much better.
I've spent my entire life reading, writing, condensing and explaining stuff, and I'm pretty good at it, but I find reading this stuff intensely tiring.
But my underlying concern remains. Why are people who want to communicate important ideas leaving it to Claude — which writes like an obscurantist gnome wizard from a bad fantasy novel — to do so, only to lead us to use LLMs to corral it into a less gnomic form?
People used to describe their own products in their own words.
compiler-devel 1 hours ago [-]
Will it be available for MariaDB, too?
alexpadula 58 minutes ago [-]
It is available for MariaDB 11.4.x forward to latest 13.x.x and offers real vector support where the MySQL plugin is still lacking though there are proposals in place.
sgarland 2 hours ago [-]
How does this differ from RocksDB / MyRocks?
alexpadula 1 hours ago [-]
MyRocks have been archived for MySQL. MyRocks in MariaDB is using a very old version of RocksDB in which is rather buggy. TideSQL is similar to MyRocks but it goes a lot further with it's features, trying to offer parity with InnoDB. TideSQL's core is using TidesDB the library which is a write, and space optimized storage engine written in C from first principles, so from the ground up.
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https://tidesdb.com/articles/benchmark-analysis-hammerdb-tpc...
Link: https://claude.ai/share/6cf78509-e283-49cc-89b1-c892bfce0641
In fact... I read most of HN like this nowadays, including the comments.
I've spent my entire life reading, writing, condensing and explaining stuff, and I'm pretty good at it, but I find reading this stuff intensely tiring.
But my underlying concern remains. Why are people who want to communicate important ideas leaving it to Claude — which writes like an obscurantist gnome wizard from a bad fantasy novel — to do so, only to lead us to use LLMs to corral it into a less gnomic form?
People used to describe their own products in their own words.