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Query Optimizers are made of sand
I’ve written a ton of SQL and Cypher queries over the last 20 years…and I’ve rewritten those queries as stored procedures more times than I can count. The issues with the expressivity of the query...
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Watch your Language
I was watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and one of the more jarring issues of the first two episodes is that Midge keeps getting arrested for the things she says. It reminded me of the song “Me So...
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Observations of the LDBC SNB Benchmark
I’m still trying to figure out the right look for the language folks will use to talk to RageDB. Instead of waiting until I have it figured out, I decided I should write all the queries for the LDBC...
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Dark Mode
I tend to only find time to work on RageDB at night. Staring at code in CLion using the “Darcula” theme works great. But like a vampire exposed to direct sunlight, things go horribly wrong when I try...
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KHop Baby One More Time
Some of the most beloved songs by main stream artists were written by Max Martin. The song “Baby One More Time” came out in 1999 and sold over 10m copies. It propelled Britney Spears into pop stardom....
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Death Star Queries in Graph Databases
In Cypher, we call any unbounded star query a “Death Star” query. You’ll recognize it if you see a star between two brackets in any part of the query: -[*]- the deadly pattern of a death star query...
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Bullshit Graph Database Performance Benchmarks
Hey HackerNews, let me just drop my mixtape, checkout my soundcloud and “Death Row” is the label that pays me. How is the Graph Database category supposed to grow when vendors keep spouting off...
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All of NoSQL is because of this…
In this blog post, KuzuDB creator Semih Salihoğlu makes the case that graph databases need new join algorithms. If you’ve read the blog post and came away still a bit confused then look at the image...
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Counting Triangles
Our last post was about a Triangle Count query. It referenced another blog post from Kuzu where they explained their use of a Multi Way Join Algorithm to count 41 million triangles in 1.62 seconds....
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Improving Performance with Flame Graphs
Yes, I’m slowly but surely getting on the generative AI bandwagon. The eye catching image above was generated in Lexica, it’s not perfect but our mind tricks us into accepting it. I am not a fan of...
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