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April 25, 2023

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Real-time Databases: What developers need to know

Explore the key factors in choosing a real-time database and compare MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Tinybird, ClickHouse, Snowflake, Pinot, and Druid to determine the best fit for your application's performance, scalability, and analytics needs.

April 24, 2023

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Chatting GraphQL with Jamie Barton of Grafbase

We sit down with Jamie Barton of Grafbase to talk about building a serverless platform to help developers build GraphQL backends, and how Tinybird has multiplied their development speed while supporting all their data integration needs.
Vitess Blog

schemadiff: Vitess In-memory Schema Diffing, Normalization, Validation and Manipulation

Introducing schemadiff, an internal library in Vitess that has been one of its best-kept secrets until now. At its core, schemadiff is a declarative, programmatic library that can produce a diff in SQL format of two entities: tables, views, or full blown database schemas. But it then goes beyond that to normalize, validate, export, and even apply schema changes, all declaratively and without having to use a MySQL server. Let's dive in to understand its functionality and capabilities.

April 21, 2023

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Generate mock data schemas with GPT

Today, we announce the release of our in-product, AI-powered demo data generator. Building off our recent release of Mockingbird, Tinybird now makes it possible to generate mock data schemas based on GPT prompts. Write your first mock data prompt today in the Tinybird UI.

April 20, 2023

Avinash Sajjanshetty

Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper

Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
Avinash Sajjanshetty

Internet is wholesome: MVCC edition

This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a publication error and how people on the internet helped me.
PlanetScale Blog

MySQL for application developers

Everything you need to know about MySQL as an application developer, with a focus on improving query performance. After covering the high-level overview, we’ll put the learnings to the test with some hands-on examples.
Tinybird Engineering Blog

A free and open source mock data generator for your next data project

Mockingbird is a powerful and flexible mock streaming data generator for all of your data projects. With Mockingbird, you can define a data schema and stream mock data to Tinybird and external destinations. Use the headless library, CLI, or UI to generate data streams for any application.

April 19, 2023

April 18, 2023

PlanetScale Blog

Pagination in MySQL

An overview of the different ways to paginate in MySQL including limit/offset pagination and cursor pagination plus the pros and cons of each.
Tinybird Engineering Blog

The power of real-time streaming analytics with Confluent and Tinybird

Today, Tinybird is excited to announce the launch of our new Confluent Connector, offering Confluent users the ability to stream their data into Tinybird in real time. With today’s announcement, Confluent users have a new way to query their streaming data and build fast APIs, faster.

April 17, 2023

Vitess Blog

Vtctld Server API

We are thrilled to discuss VtctldServer, the new gRPC API for performing cluster management operations with vtctld components. This is the (near-) culmination of long, steady migration that began back in Vitess v9 (!!!) and went GA in Vitess v15, so we'd like to talk a bit about the motivation behind the move, the design of the new API, and where we go from here. Why? # Vitess users may have found themselves invoking various cluster management operations (think CreateKeyspace, EmergencyReparentShard, Backup, and so on) via the vtctlclient program.