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Distributed·Engineering·Benchmarks·Product/5 min read

DILITH: ScramDB's high-performance distributed commit protocol

Say you move $100 from checking to savings. Checking drops by 100, savings grows by 100, and those two updates have to land together. In ScramDB the two accounts can sit on two different servers, even in two different countries. If one...

Theo M. Bulut·September 30, 2026

The database that drives itself

Every other database makes you its control loop. You size it for the worst hour you can imagine, tune it for a workload that changes the following week, and hold capacity in reserve against the burst that would otherwise take checkout...

Theo M. Bulut·September 23, 2026

Vector·Benchmarks·Engineering·Product·8 min read

ANODE crushes Qdrant by 20x and Elastic's vector index by 71x

Qdrant and Elastic have spent this season publishing benchmarks at each other. Elastic says Elasticsearch does 32.4 queries a second and Qdrant does 4.5. Qdrant says Qdrant does 111.9. They are 25 times apart on the same system, on the...

Theo M. Bulut·September 12, 2026

Product·Use Case·Finance·12 min read

Conversational Finance using Semantic AI

Let's be honest: finance does not have a data problem. Finance has a trust problem. Every team I know that builds finance software carries the same scar. A customer asks the product for revenue, the product answers, and the number in the...

Theo M. Bulut·September 11, 2026

Engineering·Release·Product·Company·12 min read

Why I Built ScramDB: One Engine for Transactions, Analytics and AI

It all started 8 years ago, when analytical data systems were still largely built around traditional execution models. At that time, many famous open source projects (later made into proprietary systems) didn't exist. I knew that...

Theo M. Bulut·July 23, 2026

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