You should know your database indexes.
This is a dev post classified by Jev as Databases (a launch), kept by the Dev Radar because it carries real work, not commentary.
You should know your database indexes. GIN. GIST. B-Tree. HNSW. IVF. Hash. Learn how they work and what types of data are best suited for each. Going live tomorrow, 10am PT.
Posted by Ben Dicken (47.4k followers) 2 days ago · 589 likes · 15.4k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Databases.
More dev work like this
- Construct a bitemporal knowledge graph with Utopia that evolves as material arrives and… — @tom_doerr
- We’re bringing Databricks Unity Gateway to developers on Neon (@neondatabase), and it’s… — @Yuchenj_UW
- Docs changes shouldn’t need a mystery deployment process. — @DanKornas
- Our new short course with @DeepLearningAI covers continual and adaptive learning: the… — @OracleDevs
- The workshop you were looking for: 2 hours, virtual, and for free. — @neo4j
- Warehouse data shouldn’t wait for someone to ask the right question. — @DanKornas
- Context. That's the difference between an AI demo and a reliable production agent. The… — @Redisinc
- When #DuckDB-Wasm was launched in 2021, databases could not be persisted: everything… — @duckdb
Every post is read and classified by Jev (TypeSafe): what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 12.2k posts from 4.7k X accounts over the last 21 days, 1.4k tools, 12 markets. Collected every 5 minutes, fully re-ranked every hour — last update 2026-09-19 18:06 UTC. Full method.