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tidesdb.com 1mo ago

Keybench Analysis with TidesDB v9.3.6 and RocksDB v11.1.1

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github.com 1mo ago

Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores

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tidesdb.com 2mo ago

TidesDB – Fast, persistent, scalable key-value storage for modern systems

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tidesdb.com 2mo ago

PGO Build TPC-C Analysis MariaDB v11.8.6 TideSQL

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tidesdb.com 3mo ago

Benchmarking glibc vs. jemalloc vs. mimalloc vs. tcmalloc in MariaDB TPC-C

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github.com 3mo ago

TideSQL – An alternative storage engine for MariaDB

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github.com 3mo ago

GitHub DMCA Notices to Anthropic Claude Code Repos

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tidesdb.com 4mo ago

TideSQL – A Space-Efficient, Write-Optimized Storage Engine for MariaDB

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tidesdb.com 5mo ago

RocksDB 10 and TidesDB 8 Benchmark Analysis on Dedicated Threadripper

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github.com 5mo ago

Show HN: TidesDB – A persistent key-value store optimized for modern hardware

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tidesdb.com 5mo ago

Plugging into MariaDB

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tidesdb.com 5mo ago

Building Reliable and Safe Systems

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tidesdb.com 5mo ago

TidesDB and RocksDB on NVMe and SSD

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

TidesDB v7.3.1 vs. RocksDB v10.9.1 Performance Benchmark

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

TidesDB v7.2.3 and RocksDB v10.9.1 Benchmark Analysis

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

TidesDB 7.1.1 vs. RocksDB 10.9.1 Performance Benchmarks

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

Why We Benchmark on Modest Hardware

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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

LSM-tree storage engines don't need to be complex to be exceptional [video]

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

TidesDB 7 vs. RocksDB 10 Under Sync Mode

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sqlite.org 6mo ago

C Is Best (2025)

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the-guild.dev 6mo ago

How Much Are GitHub Stars Worth to You? [2023]

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

Comparative Analysis of TidesDB v7.0.7 and RocksDB v10.7.5

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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

TidesDB – A Modern RocksDB Replacement [video]

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news.lavx.hu 6mo ago

TidesDB Outpaces RocksDB by 4x in Seek Performance Through Aggressive Caching

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

Death by a Thousand Cycles – Micro-Optimizations in TidesDB v7.0.4

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

What I Learned Building a Storage Engine That Outperforms RocksDB

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tidesdb.com 6mo ago

TidesDB 7.0.0 vs. RocksDB 10.7.5: A Detailed Performance Analysis

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blog.codinghorror.com 7mo ago

Coding Without Comments (2008)

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tidesdb.com 7mo ago

TidesDB: 4.7x faster seeks than RocksDB via aggressive caching

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github.com 7mo ago

A C Library That Outperforms RocksDB in Speed and Efficiency

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Hello hn, I’m Alex the creator of TidesDB and over the past few months I’ve been working on putting TidesDB to work inside MariaDB through a plugin which the project is labeled TideSQL.

The project has grown quite a lot where I’d like to share it.

The plugin allows for MariaDB to optimize writes; not leave resources on the table and optionally scale infinitely. In tpc-c benchmarks the plugin shows rather great numbers comparing to MyRocks and InnoDB, you can find this analysis on the TidesDB website.

https://tidesdb.com

Cheers

I don’t feel that way at all. I’ve been maintaining open source storage systems for few years. I love it. Absolutely love it. I maintain TidesDB it’s a storage engine. I also have back pain but that doesn’t mean you can’t do what you love.

TidesDB is a storage engine, you use it to build databases. It's persistent and built on a log-structured-merge tree (LSM) with modern research incorporated such as

* Spooky - Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly

* WiscKey - Key-value seperation

TidesDB has cache layers such as a clock block cache but it's mainly a persistent layer and a library.

I also have a presentation on TidesDB you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HROlAaiGVQ

Memcached is a cache, TidesDB is an engine for building databases, think a game engine for building games like say Unity.

I thought the docs were pretty good just going through them to see what the product was. For me I just don't see the use-case but I'm not well versed in their industry.

It’s not, it’s just how hackernews works. You’ll see new projects hit 1k-10k stars in a matter of a day. You can have the best project, best article to you but if everyone else doesn’t think so it’ll always be at the bottom. Some luck involved too. Bots upvoting a post not organically I doubt is gonna live long on first page.