Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. Written by Blaise Pascal is often misattributed to Mark Twain. It reminds us to try to be brief. Too many people never learn this.
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Valentine’s Day was earlier this week, maybe you took your significant other to dinner, sent flowers or candy to your crush, even bought a card for that special someone. I bet however you didn’t profess your love to your favorite software library. I did. I love Roaring Bitmaps. Like Mariah Carey, I can’t live without it, so I won’t. I added Roaring Bitmaps to RageDB.
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The folks who build the database are not the same folks who use the database and that causes problems. It has been my number 1 complaint for the past decade or so. People building features in isolation can’t see the forest for the trees and the end user experience suffers. I ran into this video from Molham Aref where he puts it quite nicely:
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As much as we all love graphs, the rest of the world hasn’t quite caught on yet. They are still sending CSV files to each other like some sort of cavemen. We have a few options for dealing with them. One is to convert them to a specific file format and bulk load them into the database as fast as possible. Another is to stream them one row at a time as-is and potentially do some transformations on the fly as needed and turn each row into one or more pieces of data. Today we’re going to go with option 2.
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Max De Marzi 