RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax
20 points by sourdecor 2 hours ago | 12 comments

AlotOfReading 23 minutes ago
It's a little weird to truncate the history [0] of your open source project and lock the v1 commits in a separate repo with limited access [1]. Are the authors embarrassed of the commit history?

[0] https://github.com/RayforceDB/rayforce/pull/166

[1] https://github.com/RayforceDB/rayforce2/blob/master/README.m...

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AnEro 8 minutes ago
I just did this recently to reduce the noise I got for using 'superpower's skill for an internal library. Personally trying to find the right git ops balance of observability/transparancy of agent work while keeping human readablity. I haven't seen any accepted standards or workflows, its really interesting to watch dev culture evolve with this
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zcw100 33 minutes ago
I was just thinking yesterday that some of what these AI generated sites have exposed is just how vacuous and low information content a lot of websites have become. The difference is previously you could at least say, "hey, someone at least spent a little money to create this" now that cost is pretty much zero. I think the answer is to simply demand more from people who have real products. If you have a product, I want to see a screenshot. Even better a demo and I'm not hitting the "schedule a demo" button. Either you step up and demonstrate capability or you're going to get lost in the noise.
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zX41ZdbW 21 minutes ago
Let's add it to ClickBench: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/
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christoff12 21 minutes ago
The claim of "built for teams that measure latency in microseconds" is conflicted by the pseudo demo showing a simple query that takes 4 seconds. I could assume that this is slowed down for effect, but the glowing green label[1] tells me this is a "real engine run" so now I'm confused.

My core question is why would I use this instead of duckdb and writing SQL as God intended[2]?

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[1] A clear indication of AI generation

[2] This is a joke.

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opem 60 minutes ago
At this point, I see an AI generated site I quit.

this might be good stuff, but I'm not even interested anymore!

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ARandomerDude 55 minutes ago
How can you tell it's AI generated?
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pianoben 4 minutes ago
Just like you can recognize Hemingway's prose voice from a few sentences. After dozens-to-hundreds of hours with Claude, you can tell.
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icedchai 42 minutes ago
It has the look: fonts, style, layout, too many em-dashes, and weird phrasing like "Every surface reaches the same optimizer and execution core."
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tosh 13 minutes ago
afaiu this is a kdb-adjacent columnar runtime and query engine

think SIMD, morsels and so on ~ Clickhouse, DuckDB …

but more like a lisp-like vector language and execution engine at its core + allowing for numeric and analytics adjacent use-cases instead of the other way round

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hnea3ekp5i 2 hours ago
The honesty is what makes it good
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esafak 48 minutes ago
A graph analytics database? Could you talk about the motivation, and competition?
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