Topic · Software

Databases

108 links saved from 2006 to 2026; 93 with a note, 34 in a Weekly Thing.

Most from: github.com 4, simonwillison.net 4, en.wikipedia.org 3, aws.amazon.com 2, duckdb.org 2
Most in: WT208 2, WT150 2
Beside it: GraphQL and APIs, Hosting and deploy platforms, Semantic MediaWiki, AWS

2026 4 links

Jev and DuckDB: Plain-English Conditions in SQLduckdb.org · Oct 8 WT353
SQLite is All You Need for Durable Workflows - Blogobeli.sk · May 30
honker: SQLite extension + bindings for Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semanticsgithub.com · Apr 30 WT346
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon Universitycs.cmu.edu · Jan 8

2025 4 links

Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgresdizzy.zone · Sep 29 WT329
Introducing Databricks Free Editiondatabricks.com · Jun 12 WT323
DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format. – DuckLakeducklake.select · May 29 WT321
SpacetimeDBspacetimedb.com · Mar 13 WT313

2024 4 links

7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025matt.blwt.io · Dec 3 WT304
Data Commonsdatacommons.org · Nov 7 WT300
Endatabassimonwillison.net · Mar 1 WT279
wddbfs – Mount a sqlite database as a filesystemadamobeng.com · Feb 18 WT278

2023 4 links

Grist | The Evolution of Spreadsheetsgetgrist.com · Nov 6 WT269
DiceRightdiceright.com · Oct 16 WT266
We Put a Distributed Database In the Browser – And Made a Game of It!tigerbeetle.com · Jul 26
The Magic of Small Databasestomcritchlow.com · Feb 2 WT240

2022 3 links

Steampipe | select * from cloud;steampipe.io · Oct 3 WT229
Using Shortcuts and Data Jar to Store and Share Multiple Linksthesweetsetup.com · Jan 20 WT208
TinyBasetinybase.org · Jan 20 WT208

2021 8 links

NocoDB | Turns your SQL database into a Nocode platform. Free & Open Source.nocodb.com · Nov 11 WT203
FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Storemicahlerner.com · Oct 7 WT198
CSV Importer For Your Web App, SaaS or API | csvbox.iocsvbox.io · May 20 WT187
Litestream - Streaming SQLite Replicationlitestream.io · May 6 WT185
DbGate | Your database management tooldbgate.org · Apr 29 WT184
Building the world's fastest website analyticsusefathom.com · Apr 6 WT181
Dolt – It's Git for Datagithub.com · Mar 11 WT177
OrbitDBorbitdb.org · Mar 4 WT176

2020 4 links

Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Datasimonwillison.net · Nov 19 WT166
Turn offline files into live databases instantly | Dropbasedropbase.io · Aug 23
Supabasesupabase.io · May 28 WT150
DuckDBduckdb.org · May 28 WT150

2019 6 links

Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tablesevanjones.ca · Dec 12
PugSQL :: SQL is Extremely Good, Actuallypugsql.org · May 30
Beam: A Distributed Knowledge Graph Storeebayinc.com · May 9
Delta Lakedelta.io · May 2
SQLGate - The Most Intelligent IDE for Databasesqlgate.com · Apr 20
EdgeDB — The next generation databaseedgedb.com · Apr 18

2018 7 links

Event Storeeventstore.org · Nov 6
The design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systemsblog.acolyer.org · Sep 28
A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyoneallthingsdistributed.com · Jun 28
Elo Rating System Implemented in Single SQL SELECTelliot.land · May 1
One Giant Leap For SQL: MySQL 8.0 Releasedmodern-sql.com · Apr 26
Database Flowdatabaseflow.com · Apr 10 WT49
Datasette Publish: a web app for publishing CSV files as an online databasesimonwillison.net · Jan 17 WT37

2017 8 links

In The Works – Amazon Aurora Serverlessaws.amazon.com · Dec 1
S3 Select and Glacier Select – Retrieving Subsets of Objectsaws.amazon.com · Dec 1
Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databasessimonwillison.net · Nov 14 WT28
How Balanced does Database Migrations with Zero-Downtime » Balanced: Blogblog.balancedpayments.com · Nov 10 WT27
Introducing Cosette – University of Washington Database Groupmedium.com · Jul 20 WT11
Daisy - a private blockchain where blocks are SQLite databasesgithub.com · Jun 15 WT6
Introducing Badger: A fast key-value store written natively in Go - Dgraph Blogopen.dgraph.io · May 16 WT2
blog.wolfram.comblog.wolfram.com · Apr 24

2016 6 links

gh-ost: GitHub’s online schema migration tool for MySQLgithubengineering.com · Aug 3
SQL Server 2016: Broader access, better reporting, faster analyticsblogs.technet.microsoft.com · Jul 3
DB-Engines Ranking - popularity ranking of database management systemsdb-engines.com · Apr 23
Monitoring MySQL performance metricsdatadoghq.com · Apr 17
Announcing SQL Server on Linuxblogs.microsoft.com · Mar 7
recordsgithub.com · Feb 14

2015 5 links

Query Routing and Rewrite: Introducing pgbouncer-rr for Amazon Redshift and PostgreSQLblogs.aws.amazon.com · Dec 29
Data Collaboration and Visualization Platformredash.io · Nov 5
S3QLbitbucket.org · Sep 2
SQL style guide by Simon Holywellsqlstyle.guide · Jul 26
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interestqntm.org · Jun 29

2014 4 links

Stumbleupon’s Big Data Architecture Using Open Source Softwareodbms.org · Nov 27
Introducing Dynomite - Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributedmedium.com · Nov 5
Wikibasewikiba.se · Sep 2
Postgres Jsonb has committed!obartunov.livejournal.com · Mar 26

2013 7 links

sysadvent: Day 18 - Wide Columns, Shaggy Yaks: HBase on EMRsysadvent.blogspot.com · Dec 18
InfluxDBinfluxdb-redirect.herokuapp.com · Nov 5
F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scalesresearch.google.com · Aug 31
Postgres: The Bits You Haven't Foundpostgres-bits.herokuapp.com · Mar 6
Go Database! Docszond.github.io · Mar 1
RethinkDB - an open-source distributed database built with loverethinkdb.com · Feb 22
Announcing MoSQLstripe.com · Feb 5

2012 10 links

Store data about inline queriesgerrit.wikimedia.org · Nov 5
Why is it hard to scale a database, in layman's terms?quora.com · Oct 3
Spanner: Googles Globally-Distributed Databasestatic.googleusercontent.com · Sep 17
CC license version 4.0: Helping meet the needs of open data publishers and usersblog.okfn.org · Aug 16
slendingabkislendingabok.is · Jun 20
Titanthinkaurelius.github.io · Jun 15
Google Refinecode.google.com · May 17
The Miso Project - Datasetmisoproject.com · Apr 26
Csvkitcsvkit.readthedocs.org · Jan 17
InfiniteGraph, the Distributed Graph Databaseobjectivity.com · Jan 6

2011 10 links

High Scalability - High Scalability - How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets a Day Using MySQLhighscalability.com · Dec 20
The key value store everyone ignored (Postgresql)blog.creapptives.com · Dec 12
Riakdocs.basho.com · Oct 26
SPARQLen.wikipedia.org · Aug 28
Triplestoreen.wikipedia.org · Aug 28
Fault-tolerancebrowsertoolkit.com · Jun 9
Speeding Up Your Website’s Databasesmashingmagazine.com · Mar 24
Drizzledrizzle.org · Mar 18
MySQL Fork Drizzle Finally Releases First General Availability Versionreadwrite.com · Mar 18
Rogue - A LiftMongoDB query DSL from Foursquarethechangelog.com · Jan 22

2010 2 links

Introduction to Amazon’s SimpleDBcopperykeenclaws.com · Dec 11
Mondrian OLAP serveren.wikipedia.org · Dec 8

2008 7 links

MySQL Tunerwiki.mysqltuner.com · Dec 6
1,800 MySQL Servers with Two DBAsperspectives.mvdirona.com · Apr 22
SQLite Administrator - International Milestone Betasqliteadmin.orbmu2k.de · Mar 25
SQLite Admin for AIR 1.0coenraets.org · Mar 23
SQLite Database Browsersourceforge.net · Mar 23
Alex King: Fixing a MySQL Character Encoding Mismatchalexking.org · Mar 6
Optimizing MySQL and Apache for Low Memory Usage, Part 1emergent.urbanpug.com · Feb 28

2007 3 links

MySQL Migration Toolkitmysql.com · Aug 5
MG4J: Managing Gigabytes for Javamg4j.di.unimi.it · May 31
Mysql automatic backup script - AutoMySQLBackupdebianhelp.co.uk · May 17

2006 2 links

Dabble DBdabbledb.com · Oct 5
Connecting Ruby on Rails to Microsoft SQL Serverjustinram.wordpress.com · May 7