8Braid Journal
Follow an argument from first principles to evidence.
Series connect visionary consequences, system architecture, benchmark methods and the objections that sharpen the work.
Post-Quantum Databases
Where Post-Quantum Security Fails, and Why the Database Matters · Four Illusions of Post-Quantum Database Security · Protect your data from quantum threats. Take control today. · 8DB | AES-256 Protects Your Data. What Protects the Key? · Make Your Post-Quantum Migration Repeatable · 8DB | Your Encryption Upgrade Must Include Yesterday’s Backup · 8DB | Your Backup Remembers Old Permissions. Should Your Restore? · 8DB | Find the Data Copies Your Migration Plan Misses · 8DB | Post-Quantum Migration: Who Owns the Gaps Between Your Tools? · 8DB | Make Cryptographic Migration a Product Feature · 8DB | Post-Quantum Protection Without a Cloud Key Service · 8DB | Your Quantum Migration Plan Needs an Archive Strategy · 8DB protected storage | Post-quantum keys. The same compact records. · 8DB | When Is a Cryptographic Migration Actually Finished? · 8DB | Which Data Copies Still Need a Security Upgrade? · 8DB | Small Records. Strong Integrity. Fewer Post-Quantum Signatures. · 8DB | Protect Your Data After the Secure Connection Ends
AI, Evidence & Control
Keep Control as Your Data Becomes Intelligence · Put Evidence to Work Inside Your Database · Understand What Changes Before You Change It
One Protected Substrate
How to Evaluate a New Database Without Betting Your Whole Stack · Multimodal Databases Already Exist. So What’s Different about 8DB? · 8DB, Ditto or Couchbase: What Does Your Offline App Need Beyond Sync? · New Data Capabilities in Days, not Weeks: The Value of a Reusable Core · One Engine, Specialist-Level Performance: What the Benchmarks Show · Did 8DB Invent Its Own Cryptography? · 8DB | Eight Explanations. How Can a New Kind of Database Help You Tell Them Apart? · 8DB | Should Reordering the Same Work Change the Encryption Key? · 8DB | Beyond Timestamps: Give Interacting Histories a Structure · Keep Your Data Connected. Cut the Work Between Databases. · 8DB | Turn an Offline Map into a Field Investigation · 8DB | Native Multimodal Data: Connect the Dots Across Graphs, Maps and Time Series · 8DB | Personal AI Across Devices Starts With Connected Memory
Database Performance in Context
8DB storage | Keep working when the connection disappears · 8DB cross-modal queries | 30× faster than SurrealDB · 8DB Vector Search: 1.8× Qdrant’s Throughput in Our Local Test · 8DB analytics | How we compare, and what else you get · 8DB graph lookups | 218,000 answers a second. Keep the context. · Half the wait: 8DB time-series loading vs. QuestDB on an M1 laptop · 8DB spatial search | Six million locations. A 14.7 ms answer. · 8DB key-value reads | 19.99 million reads a second in our recorded run
AI With Authority
I Would Pay for a Good Counterexample · The Dataset Doesn't Have to Change Hands · Would You Give an AI $100 and Walk Away?
Iterating on Navier-Stokes
After OpenAI's Navier-Stokes Proof, What Can the Next AI Reuse? · 8DB | Stop Losing the Research You've Already Paid For · When Evidence Changes, Know Which Decisions Need Review · 8DB | The Proof Passed. Did It Answer the Right Question? · 8DB | Keep the Research Alternatives a Single Score Would Hide · 8DB | What Can Geometry Reveal That Data Points Alone Cannot? · 8DB | Making Large Proofs Practical on Smaller Machines · 8DB | When the Evidence Changes, Which Conclusions Still Stand? · 8DB | Catch the Missing Step Before Research Becomes a Decision · 8DB | What If Every Failed Research Attempt Made the Next One Stronger?
Trustworthy AI Data
Your AI Found the Right Passage. Can It Tell Whether to Trust It? · 8DB | Your AI Remembers. Who Controls What It Keeps? · 8DB | A Prompt Can Ask for Your Secrets. Can the Agent Open Them? · Your AI Has an Answer. Where Did Its Data Come From? · Give Your AI the Evidence Behind the Answer · OpenSanctions in 8DB: follow the ownership, then the missing evidence
Trust Beyond Ledgers
8DB | Can Aid Be Accountable Without Tracking Everyone? · 8DB | Can Your Audit Trail Explain Why the Decision Changed? · 8DB | Before You Delete the Data, Check What Depends on It · When AI Buys the Machine, Who Verifies the Deal?
Evidence and Evaluation
8DB Makes Every Benchmark Carry Its Evidence
8DB on Apple Silicon
8DB | Give On-Device AI the Context Behind Your Question
Fielded Systems
8DB | Fewer Security Handoffs. A Clearer Database Assessment. · 8DB | Keep the Whole Field Task Working Offline · 8DB | Turn a Maintenance Alert Into Evidence You Can Inspect
Evaluation and Assurance
OpenSanctions in 8DB: which conclusions survive a source change? · Give AI Agents the Right Data. Keep the Rest Sealed. · Put 8DB’s Security Claims to the Test
Model-Independent Data
8DB | One Memory for AI That Sees, Searches and Remembers