With Google trends you can compare words, and see how they are being used within google searches. You can use it to compare different things.
Check it out at http://www.google.com/trends
For example, I did a search on MySQL,PostgreSQL,Ingres to compare open source databases.
To see how google stacks up with the commercial competitors I tried. MySQL,Oracle,SQL Server,Informix,Sybase
Check it out, it’s very cool
PyCon AU 2026 held in Brisbane this week was a five day event for the Python community. With specialized tracks and dedicated tutorial and engineering days there was a wide variety of content available.
Read moreI previously came across an issue in my benchmarking work where I relied on the Latency Histogram section of sysbench output. On Linux it worked fine — I generally ran my workload there, so it never mattered.
Read moreIn Curated MySQL Data Sets for Realistic Testing I described datasets assembled the manual way — download, schema, load, validate, document — over hours or days per source. This post is the follow-up I promised: what changes when AI assists the same workflow, using DuckDB as the target engine and GeoNames as the first example.
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