Howard Chu @ Symas

Sometimes it's embarrassing to see the kind of inane things people build on top of #LMDB https://xcancel.com/NathanAMeeks/status/2001643709025460531 But it's just a tool, it's neutral. Good or evil comes from who is using it...

From trees to graphs: speeding up vector search 10x with Hannoy - on #LMDB

From trees to graphs: speeding up vector search 10x with Hannoy

This is a walkthrough of a new LMDB-based HNSW Rust vector store with drastically better performances than the previous random-projection-based one...

This was a trivial enhancement that should have been committed a while ago: adding support for 2-phase commit to #LMDB

GitLab

ITS#9224 lmdb: add support for PREPARE/2-phase commit (!811) · Merge requests · openldap / OpenLDAP · GitLab

Welcome to the OpenLDAP Gitlab instance

It's another feature that BerkeleyDB has had for a long time, used to implement distributed transactions. Of course BerkeleyDB has full blown distributed access support, and its own Tuxedo-compatible distributed transaction manager. LMDB remains single-node only; the calling app will have to deal with actual distributed processing.

Got a set of stainless steel chopsticks from AliExpress. They're great, nothing sticks to them, just a quick rinse and they're clean. "But wait" you say, "nothing sticks to them? Doesn't that make them harder to use?" Well actually, they have textured tips, so they're not too slippery. But... yeah, as soon as they're coated with gravy or any liquids, all bets are off.