Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderOther people have had trouble wringing competitive performance out of Bw-Trees despite heroic optimization efforts [0]. Why is this implementation going to beat other index structures with just a bit of tuning? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17041616
There was an awesome talk very recently about Sled at FOSDEM, highly recommend. https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/rust_techniques_sled/ Talk breif: sled and rio modern database engineering with io_uring sled is an embedded database that takes advantage of modern lock-free indexing and flash-friendly storage. rio is a pure-rust io_uring library unlocking the linux kernel's new asynchronous IO interface. This short talk will cover techniques that have been used to take advantage of modern hardware and kernels…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 481
- Total comments
- 120
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-22 | Sled: Bw-Tree Key Value Store in Rust | xstartup | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-05-28 | An embedded database written in RustFirst breakout · Best thread | mountainview | 277 | 72 |
| 2020-02-20 | Sled: Embedded Database Written in RustLatest 20+ point return | adamnemecek | 198 | 48 |
| 2024-12-13 | Sled: An Embedded Database in Rust | statusfailed | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-05-29 | Sled – An Embedded Database in Rust | modinfo | 1 | 0 |