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   by tudorg 3y ago

   Thanks, fixed it. That was embarrassing :)
2. 122.▲
   by tudorg 3y ago

   Do you prefer it locally or in the cloud? If in the cloud, check out Xata (the domain of the blog post here).
3. 123.▲
   by tudorg 3y ago

   (disclaimer: author of the post) I plan a follow up to compare it with Elasticsearch, however, I don't think I'm going to attempt benchmarking, because whatever realistic scenario I come up with, it will not necessarily be relevan
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   Postgres schema changes are still a PITA(xata.io)

   2 points by tudorg 3y ago|0 comments
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   by tudorg 3y ago

   Looks very interesting! > The switch is made by putting the user on the source database in READ ONLY mode, so that it is not accepting any more writes and waits for the flush lag to be 0. It is up to user to kick of a rolling restart of
6. 126.▲
   by tudorg 3y ago

   The ecosystem of tools and learning resources around SQL is so large that I think generally any FancyQL is a liability. It would need to bring a 10x improvement over SQL and that is hard to believe. However , I’d have said the same about J
7. 127.▲
   by tudorg 3y ago

   An easy practical option for text is to use the OpenAI embeddings API.
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   Show HN: XataForm, open source alternative to Typeform(github.com)

   2 points by tudorg 3y ago|0 comments
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   by tudorg 3y ago

   > The issue is that solutions here are not standard yet and thus there will not be much collective knowledge to draw upon. I'd much rather ask engineers to fix age-old RDBMS issues than novel ones that are unsearchable with solution
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    by tudorg 3y ago

    This is why at Xata we have developed our own ORM-like SDK for TypeScript and we store migration files in the repo. The SDK is very lightweight so it runs in any serverless runtime. It also means we can create DB branches on the fly for eac
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    Show HN: Ask questions to your tech stack documentation(ask-your-stack.vercel.app)

    4 points by tudorg 4y ago|0 comments
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    by tudorg 4y ago

    Thanks for the idea, the cost wouldn't be a lot smaller because the question summary doesn't consume so many tokens compared to the context, however the latency would be improved significantly if we avoid one round-trip.
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    Semantic or keyword search for finding ChatGPT context. Who searched it better?(xata.io)

    5 points by tudorg 4y ago|2 comments
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    Drizzle-team/drizzle-ORM: TypeScript ORM for SQL(github.com)

    2 points by tudorg 4y ago|0 comments
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    ChatGPT on Your Data – Xata(xata.io)

    3 points by tudorg 4y ago|0 comments
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    2023 State of Databases for Serverless and Edge(leerob.io)

    2 points by tudorg 4y ago|0 comments
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    Client-side database access without client-side secrets(blog.cloudflare.com)

    4 points by tudorg 4y ago|0 comments
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    by tudorg 4y ago

    Ah yes, that makes sense and we should be able to do that based on the API. The migrations are ultimately JSON documents.
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    by tudorg 4y ago

    > Although I'm a bit bummed out because all sql syntax has been striped out, which makes sense, since we are no longer dealing with just sql here. Yes, we are hoping to add support for SQL as well, but we need to intermediate the AP
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    by tudorg 4y ago

    Check out https://xata.io/ We've taken a lot of inspiration from Airtable and applied it on top of a real database, so it sounds quite similar to the feature set that you are describing. We're in closed beta but I
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    by tudorg 5y ago

    Xata | Full-time | Remote in North and South America, Europe, Africa | https://www.xata.io/ We have open positions for backend (primarily Golang) and frontend (Typescript) engineers, SRE, as well as DevRel / Developer
22. 142.▲
    by tudorg 5y ago

    No worries :), and I'm glad that you did. It serves as good validation that we're working on something useful. We will be in touch to give you early access.
23. 143.▲
    by tudorg 5y ago

    Thanks, definitely valuable feedback! I see what you mean about the security image, we're fixing it now.
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    by tudorg 5y ago

    > What is a "connectionless api"? I have not heard that phrase before? It just means that we offer an HTTP based API, so you don't need to do connection pooling. This is convenient for serverless apps, because they can&#x2
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    by tudorg 5y ago

    Thanks! That's indeed the idea.
26. 146.▲
    by tudorg 5y ago

    That's right, see also my answer to the sibling comment.
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    by tudorg 5y ago

    Thanks for the questions. > Is it NoSQL / NewSQL? > Based on any open source backend like Postgres or OpenSearch? Yes, we are basing our implementation on Postgres + Elasticsearch. However, we don't plan to offer direct acce
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    by tudorg 5y ago

    I understand. We didn't post this ourselves, however a Techcrunch article about our funding round was posted today, and then someone else has posted this to HN.
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    by tudorg 5y ago

    Yes, I admit the website is a bit high level. That is mostly because we're not yet quite ready to launch, we will have proper documentation once we do.
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    by tudorg 5y ago

    Hi everyone, I am Tudor, CTO at Xata. Thanks for posting the link! We’re not yet ready for you to try it out, so it is maybe a bit too early to show it to this community. We will probably do a proper Show HN post once we are ready. Neverthe