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Poll: What database does your company/you use?
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Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.)
Results as chart: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7729603
Nice!
Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ask HN: Has anyone ever considered "MS Access a viable option"?
"Access, why would we need that? We already have a shared folder with all our Excel sheets"
This is true, and several of the world's biggest companies run that way. Several-hundred-megabyte spreadsheets, with VBA interfaces copy & pasted between them; can't change it because the unknown cost of breaking it is potentially greater than the known cost of hiring an entire department of people to do one database server's job :(
Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?
#94more opinionated advice: ElasticSearch and the entire "ELK" stack (Logstash+ElasticSearch+Kibana)is awesome; but don't use it as a primary data store. It's not meant for that even though some of us are using it as such.
Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?
#95 575 PostgreSQL
462 MySQL
275 Redis
201 MongoDB
184 Microsoft SQL Server
144 SQLite
124 Memcached
122 ElasticSearch
100 Oracle
80 The File System
66 MariaDB
57 Cassandra
44 Other
41 Amazon DynamoDB
24 Riak
23 CouchBase (Couch, Membase included)
23 DB2
20 Neo4j
19 Custom
18 BigTable
16 LevelDB
14 HBase
14 RethinkDB
12 Firebase
11 Amazon SimpleDB
9 RavenDB
9 Vertica
8 Datomic
7 Tokyo
5 Teradata
5 Firebird
5 Informix
2 VoltDB
2 Netezza
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
but for startups I think it's horrible. Why? Wouldn't it make more sense for startups to color within the lines, in terms of getting features to market faster? I'd take one person that really groks devops and database internals well enough to make informed choices Funded or not, a startup has the responsibility to turn every dollar into a feature that creates revenue, not architecture.
First, I never said "don't use SQL, even where it makes sense." The original commenter wrote, "advice to anyone deciding on a database". I strongly disagree with the notion that any practicing or aspiring creator should refuse to learn about and consider the full range of tools at their disposal, simply because there's a popular default choice. Specialized tools provide a form of leverage to those who understand and…
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Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?
#97No Solr but ElasticSearch?
The reason I thought of adding ElasticSearch in the end was because some projects have started to use it as a DB on its own.
We have been using Solr on it's own as a database for years. Many times I hear the "don't use solr as a database" rhetoric but honestly for our usage it is amazing. We're using it as a document store and querying using fulltext and key/value indexes. It is fast and reliable and has handled millions of documents pretty easily. I've been happy with it.
Currently evaluating ElasticSearch and it looks really promising also. We may move over to it as it seems to have a bit more momentum and better support for cloud/scaling.
Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?
#98I wonder how this distribution is skewed based on company size, sector, and region. (I.E…Large established financial companies in the Midwest primarily prefer X. Small social media startups on the West Coast primarily prefer Y).
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
but for startups I think it's horrible. Why? Wouldn't it make more sense for startups to color within the lines, in terms of getting features to market faster? I'd take one person that really groks devops and database internals well enough to make informed choices Funded or not, a startup has the responsibility to turn every dollar into a feature that creates revenue, not architecture.
First, I never said "don't use SQL, even where it makes sense." The original commenter wrote, "advice to anyone deciding on a database". I strongly disagree with the notion that any practicing or aspiring creator should refuse to learn about and consider the full range of tools at their disposal, simply because there's a popular default choice. Specialized tools provide a form of leverage to those who understand and…
Can you imagine if the founders of Google took this kind of advice?
As a couple of examples, Google started on clusters of relatively commodity hardware. For years, AdWords ran on MySQL. Google's advantage wasn't in the innovative architecture, but rather, in the PageRank logic, which led to leadership in other areas. The architecture supports the innovation, which is the competitive advantage; the architecture isn't the competitive advantage.
Re: Poll: What database does your company/you use?
#100Relevant – http://www.databasefriends.co/2014/03/favorite-relational-da...
It's a recent poll about favorite relational database and Postgres came first by far.