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February 27, 2021

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February 19, 2021

Online DDL in Vitess

Vitess introduces a new way to run schema migrations: non-blocking, asynchronous, scheduled online DDL. With online DDL Vitess simplifies the schema migration process by taking ownership of the operational overhead, and providing the user a simple, familiar interface: the standard ALTER TABLE statement. Let’s first give some background and explain why schema migrations are such an issue in the databases world, and then dive into implementation details The relational model and the operational overhead # The relational model is one of the longest surviving models in the software world, introduced decades ago and widely used until today.

February 17, 2021

February 16, 2021

Clickhouse, Open Source and Tinybird

We are hiring full-time Clickhouse Developers. Find out why we contribute to Open Source (ClickHouse) and why we want to contribute much more.

February 11, 2021