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Binary Serialization Format

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Summary

  1. Protobuf is best for message serialization. Some companies (e.g., Google) also use it extensively for disk serialization.

  2. FlatBuffers has better CPU performance.

  3. Apache Parquet is the most popular binary …

Unified SQL Syntax

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Trino

Trino is a distributed SQL query engine for big data. It is formerly known as PrestoSQL.

ZetaSQL

ZetaSQL is a customized SQL dialect, along with parser and analyzer, that Google …

SQL Database Client-server Protocols

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  1. Apache Arrow Flight is the future protocol for querying Databases! It use columnar data and leverages Apache Arrow to avoid unnecessary copy of data, which makes it able to query large …

Cloud Object Storage

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Amazon S3

Google Cloud Storage

Use Tauri to Build a Desktop Application

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Tauri is a framework for building tiny, blazing fast binaries for all major desktop platforms. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their …