FASTER VS Redash

You would be surprised by performance of modern .NET :)

Writing no-alloc is oftentimes done by reducing complexity and not doing "stupid" tricks that actually work against JIT and CoreLib features.

For databases specifically, .NET is actually positioned very well with its low-level features (intrisics incl. SIMD, FFI, struct generics though not entirely low-level) and high-throughput GC.

Interesting example of this applied in practice is Garnet[0]/FASTER[1]. Keep in mind that its codebase still consist of un-idiomatic C# and you can do way better by further simplification, but it already does the job well enough.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/garnet

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER

A vaguely similar project that might be of interest is: https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER

It's also an "unbundled" low-level component that one could use as the foundation for a database engine or whatever. According to Microsoft, FASTER is not just "fast", but significantly faster than even some basic in-memory data structures that ship in the .NET standard library!

The downside is that it doesn't (yet) support some more advanced features like multi-server distributed mode.

However, that relative simplicity may be preferred in some scenarios...

Last time i looked into it there weren't that many i could find. There is https://github.com/tikv/tikv which uses rocksdb with raft. and there is faster https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER/ .

you could use fasterkv https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER

FTA, https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/wiki/Performance-of-FAST...

It seems like there may be an issue with Watchdog on Apple Silicon.

I am looking for service or tool similiar to Metabase or Redash that allows me to add data source - for example Postgres connection, and create raw SQL queries that can be shared or exposed through API. So instead of keeping raw SQL code somewhere, my other service would call this tool e.g. http://microservice/query=1?param1=xx&page=2 and get the results from the DB. These calls are internal only and part of ETL processes, but of course authentication would be required.

Yeah, a lot of the time I'd agree with you.

This container came about for the Redash project (https://github.com/getredash/redash), which has been stuck on PostgreSQL 9.5 (!) for years.

Moving to a new PostgreSQL container version is easy enough for new installations, but rolling that kind of change out to an existing userbase isn't so pretty.

For people familiar with the command line, PostgreSQL, and Docker then no worries.

But a large number of Redash deployments seem to have been done by people not skilled in those things. "We deployed it from the Digital Ocean droplet / AWS image / etc!"

For those situations, something that takes care of the database upgrade process automatically is the better approach. :)

I have tried Metabase, Redash beore (both self hosted open source versions), from my experience I find Metabase a bit easy to work with.

Regarding visualization tools, sqliteviz has proven to be the best I've found so far. Their web app runs locally but has some trackers, so I run it locally via a simple, static HTTP server. Falcon and Redash seem like overkill for my needs.

Redash seems to be dead or at least in hibernation. There hasn't been a release in over a year.

https://github.com/getredash/redash/issues/5891

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