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YDB.tech blog
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YDB.tech blog is the company blog at blog.ydb.tech, writing about data, systems and programming. Since 2023, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Weak isolation levels allowed to steal BTC using plain SQL”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Weak isolation levels allowed to steal BTC using plain SQL5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-07-02
- Can You Trust Published ANN Benchmarks for Databases?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-14
- YCSB performance series: YDB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-17
- Sharded Is Not Distributed: What You Should Know When PostgreSQL Is Not Enough2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-15
What Hacker News says?
That's indeed amusing! I just published a post with title "When Postgres is not enough". It seems that the true distributed databases we have evaluated aren't quite Postgres's cup of tea: https://blog.ydb.tech/when-postgres-is-not-enough-performanc...
Comment linking /when-postgres-is-not-enough-performance-evaluation-of-postgresql-vs-distributed-dbmss-23bf39db2d31
on “PostgreSQL is eating the database world”Submitted We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres as a story · 280 points
HN discussionThere're some proofs, check the https://blog.ydb.tech/ for comparison against CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.
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on “YDB – an open source distributed SQL database”Submitted Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Surprising gRPC Client Bottleneck in Low-Latency Networks as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted An empirical answer to the question, when Postgres is not enough as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Evaluation of PostgreSQL vs. Distributed DBMSs as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in Postgres TPC-C as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weak isolation levels allowed to steal BTC using plain SQL as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Practical Intuition for C++20 Coroutines as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardening YDB with Jepsen: lessons learned as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted YCSB performance series: YDB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Postgres is not enough: PostgreSQL vs. Distributed DBMSs as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted YCSB performance series: YDB, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted YCSB performance series: YDB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted io_uring, libaio performance across Linux kernels and an unexpected IOMMU trap as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database/SQL bindings for YDB in Go as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharded Is Not Distributed: What You Should Know When PostgreSQL Is Not Enough as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do we fear the serializable transactions more than we fear subtle bugs? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted YDB v23.1 Release Webinar Recap as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharded Is Not Distributed: What You Should Know When PostgreSQL Is Not Enough as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Io_uring I/O Can Outlive a Reaped Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How reliable are published vector search benchmark results? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can You Trust Published ANN Benchmarks for Databases? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Postgres Is Not Enough? Perf Evaluation of Postgres vs. Distributed DBMSs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Coroutines Routine: Building a Scalable TPC-C Client in C++ as a story · 1 points
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