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The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)

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A database is at the heart of how Let’s Encrypt manages certificate issuance. If this database isn’t performing well enough, it can cause API errors and timeouts for our subscribers. Database performance is the single most critical factor in our ability to scale while meeting service level objectives.

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Spann: Highly-Efficient Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (2021)

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The in-memory algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) have achieved great success for fast high-recall search, but are extremely expensive when handling very large scale database. Thus, there is an increasing request for the hybrid ANNS solutions with small memory and inexpensive solid-state drive (SSD).

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How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021)

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FoundationDB is a very impressive database. Its paper won the best industry paper award in SIGMOD'21. In this post, I will explain, in detail, how FDB works and discuss a few very interesting design choices they made. It's a dense paper packed with neat ideas. Many details (sometimes even proof

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Dos and Don’ts of Database Management for Online Businesses in 2021

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The post Dos and Don’ts of Database Management for Online Businesses in 2021 appeared first on DATAVERSITY. This proved even truer during the COVID-19 pandemic, when unimagined chaos ensued around the globe, sending multiple businesses into closure. On the flip side, the epidemic also presented a silver lining […].

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What are the Best Database Security Practices to Implement?

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Since 2021 the world has been creating as much data every 40 minutes as was built in the entirety before 2003. Data is scaling at an incredible rate, making databases more critical than ever to keep things running smoothly. That’s where database security comes in.

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Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

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Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled. That Qdrant has now raised $7.5

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The 2021 Executive Guide To Data Science and AI

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This post is a bitesize walk-through of the 2021 Executive Guide to Data Science and AI  — a white paper packed with up-to-date advice for any CIO or CDO looking to deliver real value through data. Machine learning The 6 key trends you need to know in 2021 ? Case-studies from real-life business scenarios and advice you can act on.