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Whitepaper: MariaDB on VMware with IBM Storage Virtualize — Integrations, Implementation, and Best Practices

MariaDB on VMware vSphere backed by IBM Storage Virtualize block storage has become the default operating model for enterprise database estates, and this whitepaper explains how to architect, implement, and operate it well. Running MariaDB [...]

Partitioned Table Statistics in PostgreSQL: How ANALYZE Fixed a Slow Query

Partitioned table statistics are one of the most misunderstood corners of PostgreSQL performance tuning, and getting partitioned table statistics right is often the fastest win available to a DBA. A partitioned table can look perfectly [...]

How to Do UPDATE LIMIT in PostgreSQL (With Standard SQL Alternatives)

If you have ever migrated a workload from MySQL to PostgreSQL, you have probably hit a wall the first time you tried to run a statement like UPDATE mytable SET status = 'done' LIMIT 100;. [...]

Milvus Vector Database: 7 Powerful Scalable Search Tips

Milvus vector database has quickly become one of the most widely adopted open-source engines for powering similarity search at scale. As AI applications move from experimental notebooks into production systems that serve billions of requests, [...]

Patroni Standby Cluster: Cascading Replication for PostgreSQL High Availability

PostgreSQL has become the database of choice for organizations that demand reliability, and Patroni sits at the center of most production-grade PostgreSQL high availability deployments. In this in-depth guide we walk through one of Patroni's [...]

btree_gist improvements in PostgreSQL 18

The btree_gist improvements in PostgreSQL 18 are one of the most practical performance wins shipping in this release for teams that depend on exclusion constraints, composite indexes, and nearest-neighbour search. The btree_gist extension lives in [...]