This article introduces how PolarDB for PostgreSQL transforms pgvector into a production-grade vector engine supporting billion-scale, millisecond retrieval.
This article details how PolarDB-X optimizes pagination on massive distributed tables using partition pruning, late materialization, and deterministic indexing.
This article introduces PolarDB-X's Secondary Prefix Compression (SPC), which shrinks secondary indexes by up to 70% to boost I/O performance.
This article examines the architecture of Alibaba Cloud PolarDB, focusing on compute-storage separation, PolarFS with ParallelRaft consensus, and physical redo replication.
This article introduces how PolarDB materialized views eliminate on-the-fly processing to boost query performance by up to 100x.
Lindorm tops VectorDBBench benchmarks with record-breaking vector retrieval performance and hybrid search capabilities.
This article introduces Alibaba Cloud PolarStore's software-hardware collaborative compression architecture for cloud-native databases, which received a Best Paper Award nomination at USENIX FAST'26.
This article introduces CloudJump II's MVD technology for solving consistency challenges and enabling advanced capabilities in cloud databases with shared storage architecture.
The article introduces PolarDB-X v2.4.2, featuring enhanced open-source ecosystem integration via new client drivers, the open-sourced polardbx-proxy,...
This article introduces how Alibaba Cloud’s PolarDB won another SIGMOD Best Paper Award for its breakthrough CXL based distributed memory pool architecture.
This article introduces how PolarDB‑X optimizes distributed transaction commits using the Lizard transaction system to reduce latency while preserving correctness.
This article introduces the optimization techniques applied to the commit process of distributed transactions in PolarDB-X, focusing on reducing latency and improving efficiency.
This article starts from the business characteristics of user profiling, providing a comprehensive and multi-angle analysis of why Lindorm is a suitable choice for user profiling.
This article introduces the implementation of PolarDB-X distributed transactions, focusing on the XA Transaction and TSO Transaction strategies.
This article describes the technical efforts made by PolarDB-X to introduce global secondary indexes that are compatible with the indexing experience in MySQL.
This article covers PolarDB-X's sharding rule changes, a cloud-native database that distributes data across multiple nodes and supports dynamic repartitioning.
This article explains the technologic details of the paper - PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory.
This article introduces PolarDB-X, X-DB, and PolarDB, and discusses their relationships and capabilities in terms of disaster recovery, horizontal scaling, and cloud-native features.
This article introduces PolarDB, a self-developed database architecture by Alibaba Cloud that won the Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2024.
This short article discusses some of the seven papers from Alibaba Cloud included at VLDB 2022.
