N-gated Hacker NewsMay 12
🚨 Breaking news! 🚨 In a groundbreaking development nobody asked for, we now have "Quack," the #DuckDB client-server #protocol, because clearly what the world needs is more DB protocols named after waterfowl. 🦆🌊 Thank you, tech industry, for yet again overcomplicating the simple task of fetching data! 🎉🙄
https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol #QuackDB #DatabaseTech #Overcomplication #DataFetching #HackerNews #ngated
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging from bulk operations to small transactions.

DuckDB
Hacker NewsOct 17, 2025

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support

#HackerNews #PostgreSQL #UUIDv7 #UUIDs #DatabaseTech #PostgreSQL18 #AivenBlog

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

Exploring what's interesting about UUIDv7 support using a demo crab store.

Aiven
Hacker NewsOct 14, 2025

Beyond the SQLite Single-Writer Limitation with Concurrent Writes

https://turso.tech/blog/beyond-the-single-writer-limitation-with-tursos-concurrent-writes

#HackerNews #BeyondSQLite #SingleWriter #Limitation #ConcurrentWrites #DatabaseTech

Beyond the Single-Writer Limitation with Turso's Concurrent Writes

With multi-core processors and multi-threaded architectures becoming the norm, the old single-writer model that SQLite pioneered has started to show its age in today’s concurrent world.