https://tty.mansuri.me/tags/databases/Recent content in databases on ttyHugoen-gbThu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tty.mansuri.me/digests/~2026-04-30/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tty.mansuri.me/digests/~2026-04-30/<p>From skiplists to intergalactic probes.</p> <p><a href="https://duckdb.org/2026/04/13/announcing-duckdb-152" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DuckDB 1.5.2: SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser</a> </p> <p><a href="https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What are skiplists good for?</a> </p> <blockquote> <p>Later I discovered that a skiptree is closely related to a real data structure called a skip graph, a distributed data structure based on skiplists. Which just goes to show that there is nothing new under the sun. Whatever crazy idea you have, there’s a good chance some other crazy person has already done it. Moral of the story: you never know when an exotic data structure will save you a lot of time and money.</p>