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Nice article. I think he's underestimating the failure on the sales team. They needed to find the intersection of Oracle customers and customers that needed the unique OLTP features of their product. I would have tried to bring an ex-Oracle guy on, for example, someone who's sold into finance or healthcare.
FYI, the post is still in its unpublished state. It's basically right, but I've been meaning to edit it for tone and rewrite the market failure section for clarity. Didn't get the chance to do that before it made it on HN, so keep in mind that you're reading a (late) draft.
I don't know, my personal opinion was that RethinkDB had its head on straight, MongoDB is garbage and still neither is so much better than PostgreSQL that I will switch away from it. Postgres is the default datastore (because schemas are awesome) for me, and I haven't had a use case yet where I needed something that Postgres wouldn't do. Maybe if you have a very specific need, you'd reach for another datastore (come…
I agree Postgres is pretty awesome, but I think the one thing it has going against it is a good GUI client. MySQL has way too many good options wherease Postgres is stuck on this front.
If it doesn't meet your needs please file an issue, our goal is to remove the no-good-GUI limitation that was imposed on postgres sixteen years ago.
I don't know, my personal opinion was that RethinkDB had its head on straight, MongoDB is garbage and still neither is so much better than PostgreSQL that I will switch away from it. Postgres is the default datastore (because schemas are awesome) for me, and I haven't had a use case yet where I needed something that Postgres wouldn't do. Maybe if you have a very specific need, you'd reach for another datastore (come…
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Rethink, Mongo et al are scalable (at the expense of some ACID). PG is certainly a good DB (I use it in production) but it is at heart a traditional RDBMS - not designed for scalability. Apples vs Pears..
What do you mean pG isn't designed for scalability? Its SMP scaling is incredibly good, close to linear.
v9.6 finally brought some parallel scans but is still limited in scope and far behind the commercial databases. Same with replication and failover, although there are decent 3rd party extensions to get it working.
The Economist comment came out of the blue. Why does the author believe that will help one improve?
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I agree Postgres is pretty awesome, but I think the one thing it has going against it is a good GUI client. MySQL has way too many good options wherease Postgres is stuck on this front.
Please try Postage. It's free for all users, open source, comes in server and desktop distributions, and we listen to our users. You can get it at https://github.com/workflowproducts/postage If it doesn't meet your needs please file an issue, our goal is to remove the no-good-GUI limitation that was imposed on postgres sixteen years ago.
There is bigger market forces that isn't being considered here - namely that the entire database as a service margins have been nearly driving down to zero by AWS. Why do you think firebase had to sellout to Google ? Why did Parse shut down ? Simply because the big cloud vendors figured out that providing paas services at nearly the cost of the infrastructure will win them even more compute workloads which is the rea…
I agree with most of your comment, but I take issue with that last part. Moore's law has no relation to the price of computing. It only makes predictions on the number of transistors in a CPU, not the performance of the CPU nor the price/performance ratio of the CPU. Even if it did, compute costs much more than the CPUs; memory, disk, power, cooling, networking, enclosures, and more all cost a significant amount relative to the silicon.
I know Google Cloud declared they were going to decrease prices at pace with Moore's law, but even if they can deliver on that it will be through innovations outside of the CPU.
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What do you mean pG isn't designed for scalability? Its SMP scaling is incredibly good, close to linear.
Postgres neither scales vertically or horizontally. v9.6 finally brought some parallel scans but is still limited in scope and far behind the commercial databases. Same with replication and failover, although there are decent 3rd party extensions to get it working.
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Please try Postage. It's free for all users, open source, comes in server and desktop distributions, and we listen to our users. You can get it at https://github.com/workflowproducts/postage If it doesn't meet your needs please file an issue, our goal is to remove the no-good-GUI limitation that was imposed on postgres sixteen years ago.
What do you mean with "imposed"?