#performance

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How Agentic AI Helped Us Beat Trino

221 queries, 7 suites, one week — how an AI assistant running automated benchmarks drove a major performance breakthrough.

Five Layers of Caching and an 8.8x Speedup Over Trino

How multi-layer caching took SQE from slower than Trino to 2.5-8.8x faster across every benchmark suite.

Streaming Writes, Sort Order Safety, and the IN (Subquery) Workaround

Fixing OOM in CTAS, safe Iceberg sort order for mixed writers, and working around DataFusion limitations.

Building a Comprehensive SQL Benchmark Suite

Seven benchmark suites, 222 queries, and the infrastructure to measure performance honestly.