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Firebolt
Company blog · firebolt.io/blogdataprogramming
Firebolt is the company blog at firebolt.io, writing about data and programming. Since 2020, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Firebolt: New Cloud Data Warehouse Competition for Snowflake/Redshift”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Firebolt's engineering posts on database internals: comparisons of Druid, ClickHouse and Pinot, SQL lambda functions over arrays, and transaction management built on FoundationDB. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The open-source analytical database for engineers — built for AI agents, real-time analytics, and efficient ELT, with the best price-performance in the market.
Most-linked posts?
- Firebolt: New Cloud Data Warehouse Competition for Snowflake/Redshift3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
- Show HN: The Big Data Game – Help the 8-bit data engineer to get the data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-23
- Zach Wilson on what makes a great data engineer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-02
- Druid, ClickHouse, and Pinot vs. data lakes and data warehouses2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-04
- We mastered dbt: A true story2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-21
What Hacker News says?
We just did months of testing on a bunch of dbs for a time-series workload, and whilst we really liked the story and devs behind clickhouse. The ops burden of not separating storage and compute ended up being a turn off. Good to see it is progressing and will hopefully get more investment, although I wonder what this means for companies like Altinity. We compared Timescale, Clickhouse, Snowflake and Firebolt. Ended…
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on “ClickHouse, Inc.”Submitted Assembling a Query Engine from Spare Parts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat about Firebolt? https://www.firebolt.io/blog/druid-clickhouse-and-pinot-vs-d...
Comment linking /blog/druid-clickhouse-and-pinot-vs-data-lakes-and-data-warehouses
on “TimescaleDB vs ClickHouse”Submitted Cloud Data Warehouse Comparison: Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Firebolt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm all for such an approach, but I also like Firebolt's approach with Lambda functions focusing on arrays. [0] [0] https://www.firebolt.io/blog/sql-thinking-in-lambdas
Comment linking /blog/sql-thinking-in-lambdas
on “SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery”Submitted Firebolt introduces a new benchmark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://discovery.hgdata.com/product/foundationdb This "Who is hiring" post for Tesla mentions FoundationDB [0]. Firebolt [1] uses it. FoundationDB is used at Datadog [2]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306170 [1] https://www.firebolt.io/blog/decomposing-firebolt-transactio... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36576775
Comment linking /blog/decomposing-firebolt-transactions
on “Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB”Submitted Big Data Analytics for Gaming – Firebolt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBad name. Try again: https://www.firebolt.io/
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on “Show HN: Firebolt – The Productive React Framework”Submitted The Big Data Game – Firebolt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: The Big Data Game – Help the 8-bit data engineer to get the data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Druid, ClickHouse, and Pinot vs. data lakes and data warehouses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Firebolt Cloud Data Warehouse Whitepaper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firebolt: New Cloud Data Warehouse Competition for Snowflake/Redshift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficient and Acid Compliant Vector Search Indexes in Firebolt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Joe Reis and Matt Housley on the fundamentals of data engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simplifying time variance in a SQL data warehouse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zach Wilson on what makes a great data engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you cannot constrain a thing, you cannot ingest that thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We mastered dbt: A true story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zach Wilson on what makes a great data engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We mastered dbt: A true story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Teams' Outlook on Data Warehousing in 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud Data Warehouse for Engineers – Firebolt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted About Those Data Warehouse Performance Wars as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with indexes to accelerate query performance in Firebolt as a story · 1 points
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