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Thirteen months ago, we started Mooncake to bring the data intelligence stack that powers giants like OpenAI to every vibe-coded app and developer. From first prompt to IPO. Today, we’re joining forces with Databricks. The mission continues: make …

Life is expectations vs reality. Here is one for Apache Iceberg – a favorite amongst the data community. Expectations: Iceberg is the solution to all my data pains See, the core of Iceberg is pretty neat: Keep all data in object storage in open file …

Disclaimer: Your Postgres and Lakehouse are free and open too. You don’t need to be (or spend like) a giant to use them. Why Postgres + Lakehouse? Reason #1: If you believe in AI, this is the agent stack Agents need memory. Both working memory and …

This blog is inspired by Jordan Tigani’s blog titled “Big Data is Dead”. Jordan and I actually spent some time building an HTAP database at SingleStore. The good old days (’80s) Back in the ’80s, one relational database did everything. Transactions …

Amazon announced table buckets during re:Invent last year. An S3 bucket that’s also a table? What does that mean? TL;DR: S3 tables allow Iceberg tables to exist without a catalog. Let me explain. Iceberg vs Delta Lake What? I thought Iceberg and …

pg_mooncake launched in beta two months ago. It adds columnar storage and a vectorized engine to Postgres. Over the last two months, with our customers, we’ve realized we accidentally built the best serverless database for analytics. Here’s the …

We are Zhou, Cheng, and Pranav. And we’ve spent the last decade building databases at MemSQL (now SingleStore). We love complex systems, deep-tech engineering, and naturally – physics 🙂 Data systems, much like physics, are built on certain …

Last month, I spoke at the Iceberg meetup at Snowflake HQ. Public speaking has never been my favorite, and knowing Snowflake CEO Sridhar and Tabular CEO Ryan were in the audience did not help. It was day 18 of starting Mooncake Labs, and I spoke …