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April 18, 2025

Decomposing Firebolt transactions

How Firebolt maps Execute, Validate, Order, Persist steps using MVCC, OCC, LSN, FoundationDB, and Kafka.

Mosha Pasumansky

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August 2, 2024

Announcing Firebolt Engines: Next-Generation Compute Infrastructure for Cloud Data Warehousing

Firebolt Inc., a cloud data warehouse provider, announced its next-generation compute infrastructure, Engines.

Krishna Thotapalli

November 19, 2023

The key is in the key.

One of the more common and costly mistakes in the many data implementations is confusion about keys.

Robert Harmon

November 19, 2023

Simplifying time variance in a SQL data warehouse

An issue many coming into the data warehouse world is difficulty with is managing time variance at scale and efficiency.

Robert Harmon

November 19, 2023

"Do data architects exist anymore?"

"Do data architects exist anymore?" Wow, as a recovering data architect that's a loaded question.

Robert Harmon

November 14, 2023

Who's down with OBT? I can assure you, not me.

I'm not a fan of dimensional modeling. It exists to solve physical problems, not logical problems.

Robert Harmon

November 5, 2023

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #4: Delete nothing, update only metadata.

Rob says: delete nothing, update only metadata.

Robert Harmon

September 26, 2023

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #3: Strong operational data store ensures high performance

This has nothing to do with the DW itself. But if you miss it, you'll fail with your warehouse project.

Robert Harmon

September 19, 2023

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #2: There's no point in measuring anything, if the data team can't measure itself.

"There's no point in measuring anything, if the data team can't measure itself."

Robert Harmon

September 10, 2023

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #1: if you cannot constrain a thing, you cannot ingest that thing.

"If you cannot constrain a thing, you cannot ingest that thing."

Robert Harmon

August 24, 2023

How IQVIA Maximizes Analytics Performance for Healthcare

IQVIA deep dive into maximizing impact of BI solutions for faster and more informed decision-making in healthcare.

Firebolt Team

June 5, 2023

Data Management Lifecycle in Firebolt

Learn how the data management lifecycle looks like in Firebolt

Igor Stanko

May 14, 2023

Distributed Query Execution in Firebolt

In this blog, we focus on distributed query execution as an integral part of Firebolt.

Benjamin Wagner

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Blog

Decomposing Firebolt transactions

Announcing Firebolt Engines: Next-Generation Compute Infrastructure for Cloud Data Warehousing

The key is in the key.

Simplifying time variance in a SQL data warehouse

"Do data architects exist anymore?"

Who's down with OBT? I can assure you, not me.

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #4: Delete nothing, update only metadata.

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #3: Strong operational data store ensures high performance

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #2: There's no point in measuring anything, if the data team can't measure itself.

Rob's high performance data warehousing rule #1: if you cannot constrain a thing, you cannot ingest that thing.

How IQVIA Maximizes Analytics Performance for Healthcare

Data Management Lifecycle in Firebolt

Distributed Query Execution in Firebolt