flat files!
My company uses actual filing cabinets that have actual physical files.
what kind of sharding scheme do you use?
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#23Interesting to see Tokyo with so few votes. On benchmarking it had the smallest memory footprint when loading ~17GB of packed binary data. Been awhile but I remember testing redis, postgres, mongo, and bdb. This let us keep all the low latency read-only data we needed available in memory and provision the smallest possible machine to do it.
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#24At TransLoc, we use MySQL and have set up a cluster of four nodes, using streaming replication across two data centers. It is something that all of us were familiar with and it almost, sort of, kind of support GIS functions, which is something we need.
I've been pleased with Postgres 9's streaming replication. We use postgres primarily for PostGIS.
+1 for PostgreSQL and PostGIS for Geospatial needs.
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#25We use Database for objects (Db4o).
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#26Hey Redis folks, if you haven't played with http://radishapp.com/ yet I'd love to hear your feedback on it. Also, go Postgres! Woot!
I'd totally use an open source clone of that.
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#27Postgres and Redis for one thing and mysql for the other.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
My company uses actual filing cabinets that have actual physical files.
what kind of sharding scheme do you use?
Duh: Customers with a last name starting with A through E go in the drawer labelled A-E, etc. We just implemented a RAID 1+0 solution that involves a fleet of entry level workers furiously photocopying every document and putting them in boxes for Iron Mountain...
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#29I'm surprised to see that Oracle even has as many mentions as it does, given how rarely you read about it here on HN. We're locked into it at my workplace, and every time I'm reminded of this PG quote I cringe a little: "The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous was the company. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those."
I was wondering the same thing. Our startup currently uses it when doing research on data sets, but it's a db I don't hear about very often when talking about startups. I'm assuming a big factor is price.