Awesome database stories from the best
The article presents a curated list of notable database stories and optimizations. It highlights various techniques and improvements made in popular databases like Postgres, SQLite, and MySQL. Each entry includes the date, a brief summary, and the author of the respective story.
- ▪The article features stories on optimizing database performance and scalability.
- ▪Notable entries include techniques for improving SQLite speed and managing large datasets in Postgres.
- ▪The list includes contributions from various authors, showcasing diverse approaches to database challenges.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/erenworld/awesome-database/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 15:22:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T15:35:02.643Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T15:35:02.643Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | eyRMsYf8CPny |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
⚡️ Awesome Database A curated list of awesome database stories. 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 2024/14/12 Faster SQLite @avinassh 2026/22/01 Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users Bohan Zhang 2024/11/12 A simple guide to ClickHouse query optimization: part 1 @lio-p 2021/25/03 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…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.