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We all know there is a ton of DB technologies out there and "apparently" one size doesn't fit all. There are multiple ways to evaluate and choose database technologies, but there i…

It was a major outage, taking many Docs offline, but now it's back online.

Totally agree.

IMHO, antitrust fines/penalties should change from amount of money to some other type of penalty, like temporary market exclusion/block or something, otherwise companies like Googl…

Agree. I think Pinot (from Linkedin) and Druid would also provide a good solution.

Paying $10 per 1 Million events streamed and $1 for each 100 Million properties scanned, Algolia would be dead.

Backblaze B2 is awesome and the future looks very promising. Their team is also very open to new ideas and projects. We have few PB of data there and never had any problem. I hones…

Lucene (used by ElasticSearch) uses Bitmaps a lot and it is one of the main reasons for their low storage usage and search/query speed. At my company we also strongly use Bitmaps o…

Very nice job. Looks like we were trying to solve the same problem (user segmentation), in the same industry (DMP), at the same time (2013-2016). LOL. I'm the founder of a DMP too.…

SlicingDice founder here. We built SlicingDice exactly for this kind of necessity, very fast user segmentation. Actually, we just developed it because we didn't find any other solu…

Very similar to S1Search: https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-2-s1... https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-3-s1...

Good content for creating time-series database engines that was just posted on other HN thread: https://medium.com/slicingdice-com-blog/want-to-build-a-new-... https://news.ycombin…

The serverlees concept is also being applied to other types of services, like databases and data warehouses. In this post below the company I work describes the reasons for a serve…

Very clear, thanks so much for the detailed explanation. I'm still curious about how much it would cost for scenario where you have 1 billion user and 200 billion events for a year…

Right, I agree with you. I was just wondering what kind of companies (except from financial sector) would be willing to spend hundreds of thousands to get their latency from hundre…

At what point do you think starts making sense cost-wise to use MapD (or GPU in general) instead of Redshift or BigQuery?

Price comparison between Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, ElasticSearch and SlicingDice using the same dataset: https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-pricing-model-and-c...

SlicingDice co-founder here. There is a more in-depth overview about S1Search on this post below: https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-3-s1... If anyone is inter…

If you are looking for a database-related blog, SlicingDice's is a good one: https://blog.slicingdice.com/ This series of posts below describes in details how they built their data…

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SlicingDice co-founder here. If anyone is interested to know more about our reasons for building SlicingDice or what is powering the service under the hood, these blog posts below …