Free Software and Databases: Some News
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Silicon Angle ☛ Open-source vector database Qdrant raises $28M
“Vector databases are designed to handle complex high-dimensional data, unlocking the foundation for pivotal AI applications,” said Andre Zayarni, co-founder and chief executive officer of Qdrant. “They represent a new frontier in data management, in which complexity is not a barrier but an opportunity for innovation.”
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Marcel Kolaja ☛ Pat’s Big Deal, and Transaction Coordination
In exchange for fulfilling their sides of this big deal the application gets a database that can scale, and the database gets a task to do that allows it to scale. The cost of this scalability, for the application developer, is having to deal with a weird concurrency phenomenon called write skew. In this post, we’ll look at write skew, why not preventing it helps databases scale, and how we can alter Pat’s big deal to prevent write skew and get serializability.