⚡️ Awesome Database Date Summary w/ link Author 2026-02-13 How We Optimized Top K in Postgres Ming Ying 2026-03-05 How Pinecone Safely Deletes Billions of Objects at Scale Hirad 2024-12-22 How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster @avinassh 2025-11-13 35% Faster Than The Filesystem @sqlite 2025-11-13 How MySQL Avoids Performance Hits from Table Scans @arpitbbhayani 2025-01-09 Database Sharding @bddicken 2024-12-14 Faster SQLite @avinassh 2026-01-22 Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users Bohan Zhang 2024-11-12 A simple guide to ClickHouse query optimization: part 1 @lio-p 2021-03-25 SQLite is not a toy database antoz 2024-06-06 How Stripe’s document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations Jimmy Morzaria 2021-06-10 Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion Garrett Fidalgo 2021-12-14 How PayPal Uses Real-time Graph Database and Graph Analysis to Fight Fraud Quinn Zuo 2017-01-13 How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Stanislav Vishnevskiy 2023-03-06 How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages Bo Ingram 2021-06-20 What is the sorting algorithm behind ORDER BY query in MySQL? Pankaj Tanwar 2025-06-30 We Made Postgres Writes Faster, but it Broke Replication Stu Hood and Ming Ying 2025-08-04 Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale Khayyam Guliyev, Duarte Nunes, Ming Chen, Justin Jaffray 2025-11-04 How we built a low-latency, multi-tenant data replication platform Sanketh Balakrishna 2026-05-07 Everyone gets faster writes: We turned off FPW's in Neon David Wein and Vlad Lazar 2026-02-25 Postgres JSONB Columns and TOAST: A Performance Guide Paul Ramsey 2016-07-26 Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL Evan Klitzke 2023-06-07 Yes, PostgreSQL Has Problems. But We’re Sticking With It! Andy Pavlo and Bohan Zhang 2024-12-17 How we built a web-scale vector database The Exa Team 2025-09-01 1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance by Joran Dirk Greef Joran Dirk Greef 2026-05-21 B-TREE versus Row Heap. Which database has the better engine? Ben Dicken
