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SereneDB Blog Blog
Company blog · blog.serenedb.comdatasystemsprogramming
SereneDB Blog Blog is the company blog at blog.serenedb.com, writing about data, systems and programming. Since 2026, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “From 3 Minutes to 7.8 Seconds: Improving on RocksDB performance”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about the company's C++ search engine benchmark methodology and improving RocksDB ingestion performance. The comments are replies from the SereneDB team pointing to these articles.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering articles, product updates, and benchmarks from the SereneDB team.
Most-linked posts?
- From 3 Minutes to 7.8 Seconds: Improving on RocksDB performance3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-12
- IResearch: A C++ search library with benchmark2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-20
- Serenely Fast I/O Buffer (With Benchmarks) – SereneDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-20
What Hacker News says?
Thanks a lot for your comment! We agree that a dataset as small as 5 GB may sound strange but it was a conscious decision. Check out our blog post to read more about the methodology of this benchmark itself. https://blog.serenedb.com/search-benchmark-game-overview
Comment linking /search-benchmark-game-overview
on “SereneDB's C++ search engine is the fastest on search benchmarks”Submitted A basic loop computes vector distances faster than Faiss as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey there! For some reason HN cut an important bit of the URL. The actual article is at: https://blog.serenedb.com/building-faster-ingestion If anybody knows why is it happening, please help make sense of it. Cheers!
Comment linking /building-faster-ingestion
on “From 3 Minutes to 7.8 Seconds: Improving on RocksDB performance”Submitted Serenely Fast I/O Buffer (With Benchmarks) – SereneDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From 3 Minutes to 7.8 Seconds: Improving on RocksDB performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Deep (and Fuzzy) Dive into Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimize Norm Gathering Asm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IResearch: A C++ search library with benchmark as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serenely Fast I/O Buffer (With Benchmarks) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From 3 Minutes to 7.8 Seconds: Improving on RocksDB performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From 3 Minutes to 7.8 Seconds: Improving on RocksDB performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussion