benchmarks.wirekite.ioOracle to Google AlloyDB PostgreSQL - 1B rowsGoogle AlloyDB is a cluster-packaged cloud-hosted PostgreSQL-compatible database engine that uses Google’s cloud storage for its storage world. A more in-depth overview of AlloyDB can be found here. For our benchmark, we used a single-node “cluster”,...Aug 11, 2025·3 min read
blog.wirekite.ioZeroth Commandment: Thou Shall Not CopyIf you’ve written database backends, you learn a crucial design doctrine: Excess Data Copying is Bad. Wirekite is designed around a related doctrine: “Thou Shall Not Copy (Unnecessarily)”. If you’re moving data from source to target, you need to do t...Jul 21, 2025·3 min read
blog.wirekite.ioThe Change Data Capture performance problemMany Change Data Capture (CDC) tools use something like the below approach to propagate changes from sources to targets: Gather changes from the source dataworld using vendor-specific change capture methods (binlog reader APIs, replication streams, ...Jul 10, 2025·2 min read
blog.wirekite.ioFirebolt: Experience with the Fastest Data WarehouseWorking with Firebolt over the past few months has been nothing short of an adventure — one filled with optimism, head-scratching, performance highs, and some deep engineering sighs. It’s a platform with a lot of promise, backed by impressive speed b...Jul 1, 2025·4 min read
blog.wirekite.ioWhy Data Movement Speed MattersAt Wirekite, we optimized our implementations around an ethos of speed over some other software engineering goals. We don’t use off-the-shelf data formatting libraries or other tools that are commonly used by others in the data movement space, and we...Jun 23, 2025·4 min read
