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I don't know much but to me it seems PostgreSQL is probably one of the most open and supporting communities maybe this is reason alot of new faces are looking at it including me.
Slightly tangential but I'm genuinely curious, does any have a theory as to why nearly every RDBMS post on Hacker News is about Postgres and almost never MySQL or MariaDB? Considering the relative obscurity of the former it seems somewhat inexplicable.
I'm trying to get a handle on the different databases, and VoltDB sounds exciting, but everyone's talking about PostgreSQL. Then there's Mnesia which I hear is, as all things Erlang, excellent, though it's kinda tied to Erlang.
I know it's hard to say what's best, but what would you say is the best DB for a completely new multilingual project that needs throughput but prioritizes low latency, for example?
Also, VoltDB is licensed under AGPL. Does this mean that it can't be used in commercial projects? Or is it OK as long as the other components are on different servers or similar?
Slightly tangential but I'm genuinely curious, does any have a theory as to why nearly every RDBMS post on Hacker News is about Postgres and almost never MySQL or MariaDB? Considering the relative obscurity of the former it seems somewhat inexplicable.
When a new version of MySQL comes out it's big news, but it seems like lots of the little day-to-day as it gets developed updates in Postgres get posted.
How does PostgreSQL compare to VoltDB? I'm trying to get a handle on the different databases, and VoltDB sounds exciting, but everyone's talking about PostgreSQL. Then there's Mnesia which I hear is, as all things Erlang, excellent, though it's kinda tied to Erlang. I know it's hard to say what's best, but what would you say is the best DB for a completely new multilingual project that needs throughput but prioritize…
If you don't know the difference, you probably want Postgres.
VoltDB is a specialty database for things like high frequency trading. It wouldn't make sense to use for, say, a consumer app or web startup.
Slightly tangential but I'm genuinely curious, does any have a theory as to why nearly every RDBMS post on Hacker News is about Postgres and almost never MySQL or MariaDB? Considering the relative obscurity of the former it seems somewhat inexplicable.
Self-explanatory, really.
Slightly tangential but I'm genuinely curious, does any have a theory as to why nearly every RDBMS post on Hacker News is about Postgres and almost never MySQL or MariaDB? Considering the relative obscurity of the former it seems somewhat inexplicable.
It's because Python tends to be the most common programming language for startups due to being easy to hire for, having good library support for a wide range of use cases, being good for web development, etc. And MySQL is focused on catering to enterprise customers who don't use Python. The last time I heard, they had something like one person working part time on Python support, so the drivers weren't nearly as reli…
Slightly tangential but I'm genuinely curious, does any have a theory as to why nearly every RDBMS post on Hacker News is about Postgres and almost never MySQL or MariaDB? Considering the relative obscurity of the former it seems somewhat inexplicable.
Also, MySQL is run by Oracle...and Oracle a horrible company run by horrible people that behave horribly, and should never ever be trusted in any form. Any developer relying or Oracle code should not be trusted ever again, and Oracle consultants are the vilest form of life on earth.
Did I mention I don't like Oracle?
Sounds like the padding stuff is a false sharing issue. They might want to look into putting 128 bytes of padding between the data structures as well: http://www.forwardscattering.org/post/29
Given we're in code freeze anyway, I've not spent a lot of though on that yet; but I suspect that rearchitecting things so the lines are dirtied fewer times, is the better fix; with less potential for regressions at lower client counts.