A curated list of awesome database stories.
| Date | Summary w/ link | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/12/22 | How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster | @avinassh |
| 2025/11/13 | 35% Faster Than The Filesystem | @sqlite |
| 2025/11/13 | How MySQL Avoids Performance Hits from Table Scans | @arpitbbhayani |
| 2025/01/09 | Database Sharding | @bddicken |
| 2024/14/12 | Faster SQLite | @avinassh |
| 2026/22/01 | Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users | Bohan Zhang |
| 2024/11/12 | A simple guide to ClickHouse query optimization: part 1 | @lio-p |
| 2021/25/03 | SQLite is not a toy database | antoz |
| 2024/06/06 | how Stripe’s document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations | Jimmy Morzaria |
| 2021/06/10 | Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion | Garrett Fidalgo |
| 2021/14/12 | How PayPal Uses Real-time Graph Database and Graph Analysis to Fight Fraud | Quinn Zuo |
| 2017/01/13 | How Discord Stores Billions of Messages | Stanislav Vishnevskiy |
| 2023/03/06 | How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages | Bo Ingram |