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OrioleDB beta12: features and benchmarks
Jul 15, 2025
OrioleDB is a PostgreSQL storage extension that implements a custom Table Access Method as a drop‑in replacement for the default Heap storage engine...
Automating performance tests
Feb 21, 2024
Learn about Supabase story to get to the automated performance testing...
Matryoshka embeddings: faster OpenAI vector search using Adaptive Retrieval
Feb 13, 2024
Use Adaptive Retrieval to improve query performance with OpenAIs new embedding models...
pgvector 0.6.0: 30x faster with parallel index builds
Jan 30, 2024
pgvector 0.6.0 brings a significant improvement: parallel index builds for HNSW. Building an HNSW index is now up to 30x faster for unlogged tables...
Performance of Vector Databases
Jan 18, 2024
[YouTube Talk Recording] The talk delves into vector databases performance, challenges, and potentialities and discovers their role in advancing AI applications like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)...
pgvector vs Pinecone: cost and performance
Oct 10, 2023
Direct performance comparison between pgvector and Pinecone...
pgvector v0.5.0: Faster semantic search with HNSW indexes
Sep 6, 2023
Increase ANN search performance in pgvector using HNSW indexes...
Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections
Aug 11, 2023
Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native Postgres connection pooler. We connected a million clients to it to see how it performs...
pgvector: Fewer dimensions are better
Aug 3, 2023
Increase performance in pgvector by using embedding vectors with fewer dimensions...
pgvector 0.4.0 performance
Jul 13, 2023
There`s been lot of talk about pgvector performance lately, so we took some datasets and pushed pgvector to the limits to find out its strengths and limitations....
Test Design using the Interface-Model-State Method
Jun 4, 2023
Introducing yet another method for developing functional test cases. Explore what happens when you base your approach on the architectural diagrams of the system being tested...
How Supabase does performance benchmarking using k6
May 26, 2023
[YouTube livestream] In this k6 Office Hours, we talk about how Supabase does performance benchmarking using k6 with Egor Romanov, SDET at Supabase; Théo Crevon, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs; and Nicole van der Hoeven, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs...
ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres & Supabase
May 25, 2023
Supabase recently contributed to the OpenAI Retrieval Plugin repo with a Postgres and a Supabase implementation to help developers build ChatGPT plugins using pgvector....
Use *This* To Upgrade Your Performance Testing…
Apr 11, 2023
[Conference talk] I attended Heisenbug Conference and shared how we started testing the performance of the Realtime WebSocket service: what stages we passed on the way to automation and CI, and how we spread this to the rest of the company`s products...
Building a Startup from Scratch: My Mistakes as CTO
Jan 20, 2023
When I was first approached to help build the technical side of a new startup, I had yet to learn what I was getting into. I was invited by a friend to audit the solution that the previous technical lead...