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points by ozgrakkurt 1 day ago | 0 comments

At least they have useful technical information in it. Personally really like reading these blog posts.

Measurements and context is so situational that it would be useless anyway imo.

It is not like any DB company is writing blog posts with benchmarks compared to hardware limits. DuckDB had blog posts that has sentences like "You are doing it wrong if you are not using HTTP api on your database in 2026", last time I saw their blog.

I also think object storage is bad in this case. And rust is no a no-no for a database project like this, because it is not ergonomic to do static allocation and arena allocators in rust. And parquet is trash for performance because of many reasons like supported compression formats etc.

[–] eru 1 day ago

> And rust is no a no-no for a database project like this, because it is not ergonomic to do static allocation and arena allocators in rust.

I'm not sure ergonomics matter that much these days, when your agent can write the tedious bits?

[–] ozgrakkurt 16 hours ago

Code being in a simple state also matters with the efficiency of agents ime.

It is not just ergonomics but the point of using rust is to have solid abstraction and a lot of high quality libraries to use.

If you are doing static allocation + arenas then you can't use nice abstraction, you can't use libraries, you have to write a ton of unsafe code because of these reasons. Then using rust is actually working against you so there is no point in using it.