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Re: Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

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throw_m239339 wrote: post #7
nsbk wrote: post #3

Some of the insights match my personal experience and preferences. At $dayjob we're migrating from Mongo to TimescaleDB (now TigerData ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) which is basically a PostgreSQL extension for time series data and couldn't be happier. We are getting better performance and massive storage savings. On the analytics side of things we are starting to use DuckDB for some development efforts, but we are keen on potentially…

Can you tell me, the scenarios you used MongoDB for? Because I'm still curious about why would anyone use MongoDB after all these years.

It is the main database for a huge Rails app. They adopted Mongo right when its popularity started to decline. I always thought it was a very poor choice since the day I joined.

It is a especially bad choice considering that a lot of the data stored in it is IoT-like and the system creates a single document per event :facepalm:

Re: Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

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Post by chickenzzzzu »

the funniest thing about this graph is that it proves there was a raw drop off in all popularities in the last 2 years, which of course directly coincides with the great layoffening that has been happening for almost 3 years now.

this shows that people are definitely rotating out of "web technologies" in general, not because they aren't useful, but because the money isn't there anymore.

perhaps a large chunk have switched to AI hype trains, and it would be interesting to compare raw results of different AI headlines, but i suspect maybe 30% of people have left tech all together.

Re: Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

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Post by redwood »

chickenzzzzu wrote: post #13

the funniest thing about this graph is that it proves there was a raw drop off in all popularities in the last 2 years, which of course directly coincides with the great layoffening that has been happening for almost 3 years now. this shows that people are definitely rotating out of "web technologies" in general, not because they aren't useful, but because the money isn't there anymore. perhaps a large chunk have swi…

I think it's attention and mindshare going to AI

Re: Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

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Post by xnx »

123yawaworht456 wrote: post #12

>a ClickHouse database of every HN story I remember downloading it a few years ago, but the bookmark I have is dead. where is it now? is it still public?

Here: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIG1heCh0a...

It's really fantastic. Continuously updated and fast anonymous queries. Big kudos to ClickHouse.

Re: Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

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Post by chickenzzzzu »

redwood wrote: post #14
chickenzzzzu wrote: post #13

the funniest thing about this graph is that it proves there was a raw drop off in all popularities in the last 2 years, which of course directly coincides with the great layoffening that has been happening for almost 3 years now. this shows that people are definitely rotating out of "web technologies" in general, not because they aren't useful, but because the money isn't there anymore. perhaps a large chunk have swi…

I think it's attention and mindshare going to AI

we would have to look at raw numbers, like, perhaps web tech is just "flat", not declining.

but my suspicion without evidence is that the gross number of people in the industry is actually dropping, though it should be increasing.

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