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

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by tetha » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:25 PM UTC

I just felt silly voting so many times.

I guess I work at a big company. Our big data team is dealing with HBase and Vertica, our game team is dealing with mysql, our web team migrates a redis into couchdb, my team deals with mysqldb, neo4j, cassandra and sqlite on a test server where no one wants to set something proper up. Memcached and the file system is working on most services it makes sense on.

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by rMBP » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:29 PM UTC

IBM Domino... :-(

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by Patrick_Devine » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:30 PM UTC

yamalight wrote: post #19

Virtuoso Open Source

Virtuoso is great for handing large-ish graphs and then being able to use SPARQL to walk the nodes. We used it at the last company I worked for and we were able to get fairly good performance out of it while walking hundreds of thousands of edges. I think it would have scaled even beyond that, however the python RDFlib bindings we were using were a bit slow.

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:39 PM UTC

pestaa wrote: post #40

For some reason I thought all major distros dropped MySQL in favor of MariaDB. The list, however, is not too short and it includes Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE, among others. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/distributions-which-include-mariad... If you thought you were using MySQL, check your package repository!

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Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by imsofuture » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:43 PM UTC

fragsworth wrote: post #31

A word of opinionated advice to anyone deciding on a database to use for their new project: Just go with something popular (MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, etc.), or go with an Amazon hosted cloud database if you really don't want to set anything up (RDS, SimpleDB, DynamoDB). There's no good reason to start a project with other databases. If you're worried about the scalability of something like MySQL when you haven't even g…

I don't think this is terribly good advice. Many databases have specific domains in which they excel. I agree you shouldn't be worried about scaling before you have users, but you should absolutely evaluate different tools before picking one.

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by patrick3a » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:44 PM UTC

tokanizar wrote: post #35

etaty wrote: post #5

/dev/null

Which only support one operation: DELETE. Isn't it?

INSERT works fine too, but you cannot SELECT tho :(

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by bshimmin » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:49 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #33

DevX101 wrote: post #27

It'd be nice if HN sorted polls by points

Only after you had voted and reloaded the page. Otherwise the effect would be to promote the most popular options. Ideally when you hadn't voted, the ordering would be random.

Has anyone written a little web app to turn an HN poll into a nice chart, automagically? (Extra hipster points for using D3 and some random and inappropriate visualisation no one has ever heard of.)

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by emn13 » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:51 PM UTC

imsofuture wrote: post #45

fragsworth wrote: post #31

A word of opinionated advice to anyone deciding on a database to use for their new project: Just go with something popular (MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, etc.), or go with an Amazon hosted cloud database if you really don't want to set anything up (RDS, SimpleDB, DynamoDB). There's no good reason to start a project with other databases. If you're worried about the scalability of something like MySQL when you haven't even g…

I don't think this is terribly good advice. Many databases have specific domains in which they excel. I agree you shouldn't be worried about scaling before you have users, but you should absolutely evaluate different tools before picking one.

What you're saying is true, but worrying about scaling before it's necessary is unfortunately common, and I've felt the pain caused by this (modern) premature optimization.

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by Moru » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:51 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #33

DevX101 wrote: post #27

It'd be nice if HN sorted polls by points

Only after you had voted and reloaded the page. Otherwise the effect would be to promote the most popular options. Ideally when you hadn't voted, the ordering would be random.

This is not a popularity vote, it's a vote on what DB you actually use. For a "Best DB system" question, you need to evaluate each DB and rank them all.

Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?

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Post by craz » Sun, May 11, 2014, 8:59 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #33

DevX101 wrote: post #27

It'd be nice if HN sorted polls by points

Only after you had voted and reloaded the page. Otherwise the effect would be to promote the most popular options. Ideally when you hadn't voted, the ordering would be random.

I suppose it really depends on the poll. Answering ‘What is your age?’ would be frustrating if all the options were scrambled. But anything subjective like ‘What’s your favourite programming language?’ would certainly benefit from random ordering.