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Exasol
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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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?
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”Submitted Text-to-SQL is dead, long live text-to-SQL as a story · 62 points
HN discussionThis 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”Submitted Is DuckDB Ready for Primetime? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionAlso info here: https://www.exasol.com/use-cases/mariadb-exa/
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on “AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines”Submitted Why is modern data architecture so confusing? And what made sense for me as a story · 16 points
HN discussionExasol 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”Submitted I told a job applicant how much he sucked. Here’s what happened… as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Streaming Analytics Made Simple as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database Benchmarks Lie (If You Let Them) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new open-source benchkit to create your own reproducible database benchmarks as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Train your own LLM? Here's what happens as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Your BI Stack Knows More About Your Processes Than You Think as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Data Federation to AI-Ready Analytics with Virtual Schemas as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Installers Dead? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exasol Outperforms ClickHouse by 10x on TPC-H Analytical Benchmark as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Versatility of Exasol with Agentic Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ExaBench: An Open Database Performance Leaderboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted EXASOL establishes largest, fastest in-memory performance benchmark ever as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seeing Your Processes for What They Are – Not What You Think They Are as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agent Control Plane in your database as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dbt Meets High-Performance Analytics: The Exasol and Dbt Integration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How 5 Databases Scale Across Concurrency, Data, and Nodes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exasol Virtual Schemas: The Key to Flexible Deployments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exasol Personal – Democratizing Big Data Analytics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative AI in Data Analytics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI for Data Analytics – Everything you need to know as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is modern data architecture so confusing? And what made sense for me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exasol released powerful multi-criteria decision solution in SQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exasol – Overall Leader in Customer Experience and Vendor Credibility Models as a story · 1 points
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