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BMW has been using them in their higher end cars for many years now.
Re:DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:55PM (#23287757)
It's a columnar database and the query engine is inspired from MonetDB which processes columns in vectors - "Execution engine: The vectorized execution engine is inspired by the paper "MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution" by Peter Boncz, Marcin Zukowski and Niels Nes.".
Re:JVM Anatomy Quarks on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:24PM (#22204695)
StampedLocks performs much better than R/W locks.
Too much generalization?