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Database Performance in Context

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Database Performance in Context

8DB storage | Keep working when the connection disappears

16,384 records captured offline. 16,512 verified after delivery and reopening. Explore what protected local storage can do for an application that must keep working.

6 min readVendor-run telemetry rehearsal · Separate historical storage testsRead article ↗
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Database Performance in Context

8DB Vector Search: 1.8× Qdrant’s Throughput in Our Local Test

At a 99% recall floor, 8DB reached 8,551 searches per second on real text embeddings. Higher search quality, faster builds and a broader native data model make it a stronger option for applications that need more than a similarity match.

8 min readMeasured locally · Real 768D passage embeddings · Shared workstation · Unfiltered retrievalRead article ↗
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Database Performance in Context

8DB analytics | How we compare, and what else you get

Historical analytical query results beside ClickHouse, DuckDB, StarRocks, Doris and PostgreSQL references, plus the broader opportunity of an omnimodal engine.

6 min readHistorical server-path timings · Cross-campaign market context · Two selected analytical queriesRead article ↗
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Database Performance in Context

8DB graph lookups | 218,000 answers a second. Keep the context.

218,000 lookups per second for 8DB. A best recorded 3,410 for Neo4j. Both on an M1 laptop. A separate one-hop test also put 8DB ahead, reaching 23,300 queries per second.

12 min readrecorded service comparisons · Simplified queries · Different clients and returned-data contractsRead article ↗
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Database Performance in Context

Half the wait: 8DB time-series loading vs. QuestDB on an M1 laptop

Five million readings, ready to query in 2.56 seconds with 8DB versus 5.16 seconds with QuestDB. A recorded bulk-loading comparison on a 16GB M1 laptop, using different clients and buffered completion.

11 min readrecorded measurements · Custom TSBS-shaped harness · Differing client configurationsRead article ↗