Hacker News: alexpadula

New comment by alexpadula in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

alexpadula — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:50:57 +0000

Rather confusing, your name has Git in it, “to build what comes after git”, what comes after your own Git product? Good luck.

New comment by alexpadula in "TideSQL – An alternative storage engine for MariaDB"

alexpadula — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:38:35 +0000

Thank you for your comment!

New comment by alexpadula in "TideSQL – An alternative storage engine for MariaDB"

alexpadula — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:01:03 +0000

Hello hn, I’m Alex the creator of TidesDB and over the past few months I’ve been working on putting TidesDB to work inside MariaDB through a plugin which the project is labeled TideSQL.

The project has grown quite a lot where I’d like to share it.

The plugin allows for MariaDB to optimize writes; not leave resources on the table and optionally scale infinitely. In tpc-c benchmarks the plugin shows rather great numbers comparing to MyRocks and InnoDB, you can find this analysis on the TidesDB website.

https://tidesdb.com

Cheers

TideSQL – An alternative storage engine for MariaDB

alexpadula — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:01:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tidesdb/tidesql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607678

Points: 3

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New comment by alexpadula in "GitHub DMCA Notices to Anthropic Claude Code Repos"

alexpadula — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:32:10 +0000

Proprietary is proprietary.

GitHub DMCA Notices to Anthropic Claude Code Repos

alexpadula — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:28:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-31-anthropic.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597553

Points: 4

# Comments: 6

New comment by alexpadula in "TideSQL – A Space-Efficient, Write-Optimized Storage Engine for MariaDB"

alexpadula — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:30:59 +0000

HN, I’m Alex, lead architect of TidesDB.

TideSQL is our attempt to bring a modern LSM-based storage engine into MariaDB via a pluggable engine, with a focus on parallelism and efficiency.

Happy to answer questions and get feedback.

TideSQL – A Space-Efficient, Write-Optimized Storage Engine for MariaDB

alexpadula — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://tidesdb.com/reference/tidesql/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466862

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by alexpadula in "I put my whole life into a single database"

alexpadula — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:47:45 +0000

I thought you created a database from scratch, got me excited! (I’m a db guy)

New comment by alexpadula in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

alexpadula — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:19:54 +0000

I don’t feel that way at all. I’ve been maintaining open source storage systems for few years. I love it. Absolutely love it. I maintain TidesDB it’s a storage engine. I also have back pain but that doesn’t mean you can’t do what you love.

RocksDB 10 and TidesDB 8 Benchmark Analysis on Dedicated Threadripper

alexpadula — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://tidesdb.com/articles/benchmark-analysis-tidesdb-v8-3-2-rocksdb-v10-10-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996422

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexpadula in "Show HN: TidesDB – A persistent key-value store optimized for modern hardware"

alexpadula — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:31:29 +0000

TidesDB is a storage engine, you use it to build databases. It's persistent and built on a log-structured-merge tree (LSM) with modern research incorporated such as

* Spooky - Granulating LSM-Tree Compactions Correctly

* WiscKey - Key-value seperation

TidesDB has cache layers such as a clock block cache but it's mainly a persistent layer and a library.

I also have a presentation on TidesDB you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HROlAaiGVQ

Memcached is a cache, TidesDB is an engine for building databases, think a game engine for building games like say Unity.

New comment by alexpadula in "Show HN: TidesDB – A persistent key-value store optimized for modern hardware"

alexpadula — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:12:31 +0000

Thank you. Do have dive into the code, documentation, and articles on the website, may further peak your interests!

Show HN: TidesDB – A persistent key-value store optimized for modern hardware

alexpadula — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:39:54 +0000

Hey everyone! sharing an open source storage engine I created and work on called TidesDB. I hope you check it out, and do let me know your thoughts and or questions!

You can also find design documentation, benchmarks, libraries and more on the website.

Alex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990959

Points: 10

# Comments: 4