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Technical articles on database wire protocol multiplexing, self-compressing storage engines, and eliminating cloud storage bloat.

Featured Guide·28 min read·August 28, 2026

How to Reduce Amazon Aurora Costs in 2026: Taming the I/O and Storage Beast

Amazon Aurora’s decoupled compute and storage architecture redefined relational databases for the cloud era. But its $0.20/M I/O trap and 6-copy storage replication bloat create staggering cloud bills. Here is how modern engineering teams cut Aurora costs by 70%–90% using columnar multi-wire architecture and predicate pushdown.

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KOLMOS Engineering Team
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How to Reduce Amazon Aurora Costs in 2026: Taming the I/O and Storage Beast
How to Reduce Amazon Aurora Costs in 2026: Taming the I/O and Storage Beast
Cloud Costs28 min read

How to Reduce Amazon Aurora Costs in 2026: Taming the I/O and Storage Beast

Amazon Aurora bills escalate rapidly due to hidden I/O charges and row-based storage multiplication. Discover how moving to a drop-in multi-wire columnar engine like KOLMOS slashes storage by 10× and eliminates query I/O via segment-skipping—with zero application rewrites.

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KOLMOS Engineering Team
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How to Reduce Cloud Database Storage Costs in 2026
Cloud Costs10 min read

How to Reduce Cloud Database Storage Costs in 2026

Cloud database storage costs compound fast on RDS, Aurora, and MongoDB Atlas. Learn 5 proven ways to cut your storage bill in 2026 — with real pricing and an explanation-first compression approach.

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KOLMOS
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How to Slash Cloud Database Storage Bills by 90%: The Complete Engineering Guide
Economics16 min read

How to Slash Cloud Database Storage Bills by 90%: The Complete Engineering Guide

Storage quietly accounts for 70%+ of cloud database invoices above 20TB. Here is how modern database engines use FastCDC chunking, Minimum Description Length (MDL) theory, and Cloudflare R2 to slash monthly costs from $25,000 to $750.

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Punit Nigam
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Multi-Wire Protocol Architecture: Unifying PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in Rust
Architecture18 min read

Multi-Wire Protocol Architecture: Unifying PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in Rust

Migrating databases usually requires rewriting thousands of lines of ORM and query code. Here is the complete systems architecture of how KOLMOS accepts connections from Prisma, Django, Laravel, and Mongoose simultaneously.

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Punit Nigam
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How to Reduce PostgreSQL Storage Costs: A Comprehensive Guide
PostgreSQL14 min read

How to Reduce PostgreSQL Storage Costs: A Comprehensive Guide

Storage bloat in PostgreSQL silently inflates AWS EBS, GCP Persistent Disk, and Azure storage bills. Learn how to audit table bloat with SQL, tune autovacuum, run zero-downtime pg_repack, implement table partitioning, and leverage next-gen self-compressing engines like Kolmos.

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Punit Nigam
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