[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@iavins](/creator/twitter/iavins) "@AlexMillerDB @dxhuang also the screenshotted text is a quote reply to another message about DSQL using Rust. So Moritz was replying in that context of why not Rust for Cedar DB"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1947174464552087841) 2025-07-21 05:59:03 UTC 12K followers, XXX engagements "@anonthedev @arpit_bhayani i think the project shutdown now"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1946819938074952004) 2025-07-20 06:30:18 UTC 12K followers, 1045 engagements "Published a new blog post: Rickrolling Turso DB"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1947303515698925758) 2025-07-21 14:31:51 UTC 12K followers, 15.4K engagements "it does mention years no direct quote from the article: We assigned two engineers to the project. They had never written C C++ or Rust before. . The code was 10x faster than our carefully tuned Kotlin implementation despite no attempt to make it faster. To put this in perspective we had spent years incrementally improving the Kotlin version from 2000 to 3000 transactions per second (TPS). The Rust version written by Java developers who were new to the language clocked 30000 TPS"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1946821811007615010) 2025-07-20 06:37:44 UTC 12K followers, XX engagements "Is there a in-memory cache which also comes with a disk component Specify the size (or the fraction of system's memory) for memory cache and it keeps all the keys there (may be LRU) and on cache miss it seeks from disk I keep coming back to problems which can be solved by this"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1918883898584444968) 2025-05-04 04:22:27 UTC 12K followers, 20.9K engagements "@thegeeknarrator that's roughly XXX requests per second 🥲 Even Clickhouse seems overkill xD"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1947560486062723397) 2025-07-22 07:32:58 UTC 12K followers, XXX engagements "Some recent database projects which did NOT use Rust: CedarDB - C++ DragonFly - C++ TigerBeetle - Zig"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1946578656966369702) 2025-07-19 14:31:32 UTC 12K followers, 43.7K engagements "@LewisCTech @_Felipe @RocksDB wait why or can you elaborate"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1946819338452767203) 2025-07-20 06:27:55 UTC 12K followers, XXX engagements "AWS published a blog post: An Aurora DSQL Story. It's less about database development and more like a love letter to Rust. DSQL's initial development was in Kotlin but they weren't happy with its performance. So two engineers who had never written Rust before rewrote a component in Rust. The code was 10x faster even though they didn't make any attempt to optimize it. They had spent years carefully tuning the Kotlin version which did 3000 TPS. The Rust one clocked 30000 TPS. Insane They wanted to extend Postgres. Instead of C they chose Rust again for memory safety reasons. For tooling reasons"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1946235701886124035) 2025-07-18 15:48:45 UTC 12K followers, 63.5K engagements "There is a new fork of RocksDB called ToplingDB which claims to be 8x faster In the Memtable SkipList is replaced by CSPP (Crash Safe Parallel Patricia trie). In SST BlockBasedTable is replaced by ToplingZipTable which seems to be their internal table with built in compression. They have already integrated with MySQL in MyTopling a fork of MyRocks"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1940389013514260843) 2025-07-02 12:36:06 UTC 12K followers, 15K engagements "sorry not sorry but you gotta know this cursed SQLite fact too"  [@iavins](/creator/x/iavins) on [X](/post/tweet/1941878346448765046) 2025-07-06 15:14:10 UTC 12K followers, 267.4K engagements
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"@AlexMillerDB @dxhuang also the screenshotted text is a quote reply to another message about DSQL using Rust. So Moritz was replying in that context of why not Rust for Cedar DB"
@iavins on X 2025-07-21 05:59:03 UTC 12K followers, XXX engagements
"@anonthedev @arpit_bhayani i think the project shutdown now" @iavins on X 2025-07-20 06:30:18 UTC 12K followers, 1045 engagements
"Published a new blog post: Rickrolling Turso DB" @iavins on X 2025-07-21 14:31:51 UTC 12K followers, 15.4K engagements
"it does mention years no direct quote from the article: We assigned two engineers to the project. They had never written C C++ or Rust before. . The code was 10x faster than our carefully tuned Kotlin implementation despite no attempt to make it faster. To put this in perspective we had spent years incrementally improving the Kotlin version from 2000 to 3000 transactions per second (TPS). The Rust version written by Java developers who were new to the language clocked 30000 TPS" @iavins on X 2025-07-20 06:37:44 UTC 12K followers, XX engagements
"Is there a in-memory cache which also comes with a disk component Specify the size (or the fraction of system's memory) for memory cache and it keeps all the keys there (may be LRU) and on cache miss it seeks from disk I keep coming back to problems which can be solved by this" @iavins on X 2025-05-04 04:22:27 UTC 12K followers, 20.9K engagements
"@thegeeknarrator that's roughly XXX requests per second 🥲 Even Clickhouse seems overkill xD" @iavins on X 2025-07-22 07:32:58 UTC 12K followers, XXX engagements
"Some recent database projects which did NOT use Rust: CedarDB - C++ DragonFly - C++ TigerBeetle - Zig" @iavins on X 2025-07-19 14:31:32 UTC 12K followers, 43.7K engagements
"@LewisCTech @_Felipe @RocksDB wait why or can you elaborate" @iavins on X 2025-07-20 06:27:55 UTC 12K followers, XXX engagements
"AWS published a blog post: An Aurora DSQL Story. It's less about database development and more like a love letter to Rust. DSQL's initial development was in Kotlin but they weren't happy with its performance. So two engineers who had never written Rust before rewrote a component in Rust. The code was 10x faster even though they didn't make any attempt to optimize it. They had spent years carefully tuning the Kotlin version which did 3000 TPS. The Rust one clocked 30000 TPS. Insane They wanted to extend Postgres. Instead of C they chose Rust again for memory safety reasons. For tooling reasons" @iavins on X 2025-07-18 15:48:45 UTC 12K followers, 63.5K engagements
"There is a new fork of RocksDB called ToplingDB which claims to be 8x faster In the Memtable SkipList is replaced by CSPP (Crash Safe Parallel Patricia trie). In SST BlockBasedTable is replaced by ToplingZipTable which seems to be their internal table with built in compression. They have already integrated with MySQL in MyTopling a fork of MyRocks" @iavins on X 2025-07-02 12:36:06 UTC 12K followers, 15K engagements
"sorry not sorry but you gotta know this cursed SQLite fact too" @iavins on X 2025-07-06 15:14:10 UTC 12K followers, 267.4K engagements