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Why Compaction Never Settles After Dropping a Table (The “Ghost Table” Problem)

knicely87March 26, 2026

🚨 The Symptom You dropped a large table… days (or weeks) ago. But something feels off: 🔥 Compaction is still elevated on […]

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Bucket-Based Indexes Still Support Fast Point Lookups in YugabyteDB

Jim KnicelyMarch 25, 2026

Intro In a previous tip, Prevent Hot Shards with Bucket-Based Indexes, we saw how bucket-based indexes can prevent hot shards by spreading […]

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Prevent Hot Shards with Bucket-Based Indexes

Jim KnicelyMarch 25, 2026

🚀 Introduction In distributed databases, not all indexes are created equal. Some indexes look perfectly fine… until your system scales. A classic […]

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When Slow Clients Become Your Bottleneck (ClientRead Waits Explained)

Jim KnicelyMarch 23, 2026

When diagnosing performance issues in YugabyteDB, it’s easy to focus on: ● Query plans ● Tablet distribution ● RPC latency But sometimes […]

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