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Company blog · exasol.com/blogdataprogramming

Exasol is the company blog at exasol.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.

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14HN people?
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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Exasol's company blog covers database performance and analytics, including benchmark critiques such as TPC-H versus TPC-DS and examples like Voronoi-based football analysis. Commenters link it as supporting material.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Database researcher here: TPC-H sucks. TPC-DS is the thing to use but sadly practically nobody does it. See point 9 http://www.exasol.com/en/newsroom/blog/10-questions-the-tpc-... Note: Exasol has been dominating TPC-H for a while but it's kind of werid they don't publish much about what's under the hood (unlike Actian Vectorwise, for example, who has a huge library of amazing papers)

    Comment linking /en/newsroom/blog/10-questions-the-tpc-h-benchmark/

    on “Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery”
  2. Submitted Text-to-SQL is dead, long live text-to-SQL as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  3. This is very interesting! Recently, my colleagues used Voronoi graphs to show how each player controls the field during a football (soccer) game [0]. [0]: https://www.exasol.com/en/blog/controlling-space-in-football...

    Comment linking /en/blog/controlling-space-in-football/

    on “Tiles to Curves: Fun with Voronoi Graphs”
  4. Submitted Is DuckDB Ready for Primetime? as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  5. Also info here: https://www.exasol.com/use-cases/mariadb-exa/

    Comment linking /use-cases/mariadb-exa/

    on “AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines”
  6. Submitted Why is modern data architecture so confusing? And what made sense for me as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  7. Exasol is another MPP database that easily handles super-wide tables, and does all the distribution across nodes for you. It used to only be available for big enterprises, but now there is a totally free version you can try out: https://www.exasol.com/personal

    Comment linking /personal

    on “Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables”
  8. Submitted I told a job applicant how much he sucked. Here’s what happened… as a story · 12 points

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  9. Submitted Streaming Analytics Made Simple as a story · 11 points

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  10. Submitted Database Benchmarks Lie (If You Let Them) as a story · 9 points

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  11. Submitted A new open-source benchkit to create your own reproducible database benchmarks as a story · 8 points

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  12. Submitted Train your own LLM? Here's what happens as a story · 6 points

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  13. Submitted Why Your BI Stack Knows More About Your Processes Than You Think as a story · 6 points

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  14. Submitted From Data Federation to AI-Ready Analytics with Virtual Schemas as a story · 6 points

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  15. Submitted Are Installers Dead? as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted Exasol Outperforms ClickHouse by 10x on TPC-H Analytical Benchmark as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted Versatility of Exasol with Agentic Engineering as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted ExaBench: An Open Database Performance Leaderboard as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted EXASOL establishes largest, fastest in-memory performance benchmark ever as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Seeing Your Processes for What They Are – Not What You Think They Are as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Agent Control Plane in your database as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Dbt Meets High-Performance Analytics: The Exasol and Dbt Integration as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted How 5 Databases Scale Across Concurrency, Data, and Nodes as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Exasol Virtual Schemas: The Key to Flexible Deployments as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Exasol Personal – Democratizing Big Data Analytics as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Generative AI in Data Analytics as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted AI for Data Analytics – Everything you need to know as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Why is modern data architecture so confusing? And what made sense for me as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Exasol released powerful multi-criteria decision solution in SQL as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Exasol – Overall Leader in Customer Experience and Vendor Credibility Models as a story · 1 points

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