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Re:Figma/Miro for Data – Einblick.ai on Monday September 20, 2021 @02:03PM (#28596749)
This looks pretty interesting. Like a mix of Figma/Miro with the video bubbles from pitch.com
Re:Learned indexes was integrated Google Bigtable [pdf] on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:52AM (#25927599)
Similar interesting is also the new Learned Index benchmark study: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1-marcus.pdf
Re:Learned indexes was integrated Google Bigtable [pdf] on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:50AM (#25927585)
Throughput increased 54% for point lookups and 56% for scans
It looks like it found its way into Google Bigtable though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12501
Re:A Recursive Model learned index structure on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:45AM (#25927529)
Yeah, apparently the results do not hold up under fair evaluation. They used a not well tuned RMI implementation. See: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1-marcus.pdf

That said, PGMs are still interesting given their theoretical guarantees.

This could have huge implications for key/value stores and cloud storage systems as it provides a mechanism to access data by more than one key. The numbers to Amazon's z-order encoding also look very interesting. Of course, updates/inserts might still be a problem, but many of the other techniques (e.g, Amazon) are also static.