Poll: What database does your company use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by natural219 » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:31 PM UTC

tambourine_man wrote: post #170

Flat file homebred stuff. We like reinventing the wheel.

+1 because... well, Damn.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

jemfinch wrote: post #127

mmaunder wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah and like HTML5 has totally replaced our web server.

He means a flat file of JSON records. Your sarcasm is unnecessary and uncharitable.

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Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by bkudria » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:40 PM UTC

At Yammer we use Postgres, Vertica, Redis, Riak, and Memcache. Here's a video about how we use Riak (and Scala) in production: http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/28/Riak-and-Scala-at-Yammer

PS: https://www.yammer.com/jobs

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

#174

Post by patton01 » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC

Teradata

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by jarin » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:44 PM UTC

MySQL for storage, Redis for caching.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

#176

Post by ww520 » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:44 PM UTC

App Engine DataStore, Oracle, MySQL, Sqlite. Oracle Express is great (and free).

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by jarin » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:47 PM UTC

jamwt wrote: post #70

Riak! We're ( http://bu.mp ) using more Riak every day. So far so good.

I haven't had a chance to use Riak in a production application yet but am definitely looking for the first possible excuse to use it.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by tomjen3 » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

gord wrote: post #83

thechangelog wrote: post #16

SQLite all over the place – it's great having a super portable DB format for quick little hits. There's nothing quite like sending a DB as an email attachment.

For me JSON has replaced SQLLite, with a large reduction in code and complexity. [ Admittedly I've written my own routines to access it more simply/directly on iOS ]

I can sorta see many cases where that would be useful, but personally I am happy letting SQLLite do the heavy lifting extracting things with indexes, grouping and using the where clause.

But yeah, JSON is great for small amounts of data.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by patrickaljord » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

zacharypinter wrote: post #161

kahawe wrote: post #145

Is it possible HN has a very strong bias on web developers? Because in "serious business" or at least in my case in finance, you almost always find Oracle and DB2 being the leading DBs and maybe Sybase and maybe-maybe mysql or mssql but hardly ever postgre no matter how awesome it is and definitely never-ever something hip and cool and latest-fashion/fad like Mongo or Couch.

At the very least, I'd say it has a bias towards younger/smaller companies for whom the price point of Oracle/DB2 doesn't make sense.

As a younger/smaller companies, I wouldn't use Oracle/DB2 even if it was free. Happy mongodb user here.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by egwor » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 10:55 PM UTC

db2? Sybase?