Das Problem mit German Strings

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An exploration of string encoding in databases, specifically examining “German strings” and why database systems should not automatically choose encoding without considering specific use cases and workload characteristics.

German strings are generally a great encoding choice, but not always. Context matters when it comes to selecting the optimal string encoding strategy for your database workload.

Designing Your Indexes for Better Database Performance

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

At Polar Signals, we improved our database query performance by 80% by changing the primary index in our main database table. In this blog post, we’ll go through why the performance improved in our specific use case and try to develop an intuition as to how to design indexes for better query performance. I hope that by reading this blog post, you will come away with a better intuition around index design to improve your own database queries.

Optimization on Alfonso Subiotto

Das Problem mit German Strings

Designing Your Indexes for Better Database Performance