A database for 2022

Post by alophawen » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 11:59 AM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #216

alophawen wrote: post #209

Not commenting on tailscale, but for the state of databases. Sometimes boring is the right choice. PostgreSQL has worked for decades now, and seems to have regained much of the performance that MySQL once boasted. If you do this for the money, investing in tried and true (but boring) software should be the default solution. I watched with dread how the MongoDB fiasco played out a decade ago. Meanwhile, I kept using P…

You say 'sometimes', I think it should be the default position. When you want to deviate from the boring software and technology, there must be a very sound 'business case' for it. If you are building a planetary scale business, OK, maybe that warrants something more fancy. But how many companies really need that? I'm not limiting myself to the HN unicorns, but looking at the whole market.

Post by hokus_p2 » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 11:59 AM UTC

jmconfuzeus wrote: post #197

That was a fun read but I'm missing something here. I've never worked on large scale systems and I don't understand why they didn't choose My or Postgre SQL. Some comments say that it's because they're complicated but what exactly is complicated about them? Can someone with more experience explain to me what would have happened if, for example, they used PostgreSQL from the beginning? P.S Apologies if this is a stupi…

Post by belter » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 12:00 PM UTC

Operyl wrote: post #186

Issaclabs wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that mean? Can you explain?

This comment trivializing Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Post by hokus_p2 » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 12:15 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #63

nosefrog wrote: post #53

There's a lot of negativity here, so I just wanted to comment that I think the approach Tailscale is taking with sqlite is pretty neat. MySQL and Postgres are both pretty complicated, so gluing together two simpler systems, sqlite and litestream, sounds appealing, and I'm interested to hear how it turns out in the long run.

Threads on HN are very sensitive to initial conditions. A very negative (and I think pretty facile) comment took an early lead here, most likely because of its snark/dunk value. Give the thread time, it'll even out.

Post by hu3 » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 12:23 PM UTC

billywhizz wrote: post #208

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #161

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First: I am not "my dude" to you. And, completely apart from the database, it's a really valid point - not a joke at all. When someone says, "It's 2022. Why are we still arguing about X?" or some such, it means that they haven't been able to persuade the rest of the world about X on the merits of their argument, and so they want to short-circuit the argument by appearing "modern" or "up to date" or "on the right side…

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