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dennis82

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About dennis82

sysadmin at a gaming company

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    Comment #6407000

    Interesting. How would this play with Mongo?

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    Comment #5983060

    They voted to strike. And yes, they assuredly are "public servants." It used to be that in exchange for working for the public and taking a lower salary, you'd be cushioned and shi…

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    Comment #5983036

    We the People pay and employ public workers. Ergo, We the People are entitled to see their salaries, and in this particular case, how badly they're "ripping off" the Public in gene…

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    Comment #5720279

    no, it's categorically not good to make an application more fragile. A weakness restated is not a strength. Every database should have an optimizer, period.

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    Comment #5720120

    this is a good update and not to rain on their parade, but doesn't this seem market redundant and reinvent-the-wheel?

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    Comment #5596903

    I have to disagree; disk is ancient - it's mechanical egads! - while 10GigE is pretty commonplace now and infiniband and fiber channel are even faster. back from my CS 101 takeaway…

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    Comment #5596603

    what are the major feature updates on this release compared to last one?

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    Comment #5174457

    well said!

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    Comment #5172683

    > "We use MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Impala." Thanks for the clarification, but this makes it even more obvious your engineering team is introducing needless complexity into y…

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    Comment #5172319

    are you kidding me? There is absolutely NO reason whatsoever to use a NoSQL database for a financial services company. Postgres is more than capable of sustaining the necessary spe…

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    Comment #5147418

    this is marketing cloaked in a developer portal. I think it's great that rethinkdb is trying to distinguish themselves from Mongo, but what's the real marginal utility of a rethink…

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    Comment #5062147

    Cloudera is primarily a consulting company, as are most open-source companies. There have been only 3 successful open source companies ever: MySQL, Jboss, and Redhat