Alex Miller
Database Papers as a Service
- Does anyone know of a good webapp or discord bot or something to help manage a reading group? Something that keeps a list of suggesting things to read, can do voting on the next thing to read, and maybe has a bit of curation support for when the to-read list gets unmanageable?
- Reposted by Alex MillerOur next event will be on January 21st, featuring speakers from (the just-finishing) CIDR! Come to Databricks to hear about: * DuckDB on xNVMe by @pinartozun.bsky.social of ITU * Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM * NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau luma.com/8a54z94d
- I’ve recently seen multiple, unrelated instances of people referencing Bf-trees. Good job, @benjdd.com.
- Asking a coding agent to run `cargo build` and read referenced source files for context has made LLMs significantly more helpful and accurate at actually understanding why a compilation error is happening and being able to explain an appropriate fix. Much better than copy-pasting into online LLMs.
- It’s frustrating how a bunch of database research from 1980s and before basically doesn’t exist anymore because it’s not on the internet, and it’s not even in the IEEE/ACM indexes of published work.
- Does anyone have links to good writing on the sort of soft skills you learn from working in larger organizations about how to work in larger organizations as an IC? The overall space of soft skills dealing with the pretty common ways that large corporations behave.
- Looking forward to reading about which disaggregated architecture HorizonDB aligned itself with
- So what’s the feature set difference between pgDog, Neki, and multigres?
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- [PVLDB] Enhancing Transaction Processing through Indirection Skipping www.vldb.org/pvldb/v... Whereas VMCache improve pointer swizzing's complexity by removing the swizzling, this work points out that page and frame hints are highly effective, and okay if they're wrong.
- This reminded me I've been sitting on draft blog posts about Copy-and-Patch JIT compilation for a while, and so I've finally published the first chunk of it: a minimal tutorial and explanation of how and why Copy-and-Patch actually works. Start at transactional.blog/copy-and-pat...
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- [ASPLOS'25] Fusion: An Analytics Object Store Optimized for Query Pushdown www.cs.princeton.edu... Tightly integrating an Iceberg catalog with an object store means that one could make file-format aware erasure coding decisions, to permit pushing down filters and aggregations.
- [VLDB] Towards Principled, Practical Document Database Design www.vldb.org/pvldb/v... If you've ever wished that there was a document database equivalent for relational databases' 3NF-style schema design guidance, then this is the paper for you.
