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I find it quite convenient that all of the best database systems I've used (Postgres, SQLite, Redis) also have the most boring webpages, and the worst databases

by ken 9y ago

I find it quite convenient that all of the best database systems I've used (Postgres, SQLite, Redis) also have the most boring webpages, and the worst databases have the most trendy webpages. I could have saved a lot of time, over the past 20 years, if I'd simply followed the rule: Is this the most boring webpage I've seen all week? Yes => it's going to be a good database.

btown 9y ago
One important characteristic of a database, though, is that it remains commercially supported and has developer continuity. To that end, competence in modern enterprise sales can be correlated with modern web design, no? CockroachDB, for instance, is able to simultaneously focus on Jepsen-style distributed systems verification and agile administrative interfaces, whose design aesthetic is reflected in the website. And there are plenty of unsupported academia-made databases that are essentially abandonware. I would not advocate for overreliance on this heuristic.
- mistrial9 9y ago
  > unsupported academia-made databases that are essentially abandonware whoa - you are setting yourself up, if that is any reference to Postgres..
  - btown 9y ago
    Wasn't referring to Postgres at all (it's the most solid RDBMS I've worked with). And I may have been unfair to other databases - was just saying that like most tech products, there are varying degrees of business-readiness in the database space.
    - hitekker 9y ago
      In my view, you weren't referring to Postgres. Rather, the cognitive dissonance brought on by the shortcomings of the redesign are making some supporters extra-sensitive to criticism.
- omeid2 9y ago
  > competence in modern enterprise sales can be correlated with modern web design, no? Absolutely not. Design and Sales in Enterprise has as much to do with each other as Sales and Code Quality, almost none.

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I find it quite convenient that all of the best database systems I've used (Postgres, SQLite, Redis) also have the most boring webpages, and the worst databases

by ken 9y ago

btown 9y ago
One important characteristic of a database, though, is that it remains commercially supported and has developer continuity. To that end, competence in modern enterprise sales can be correlated with modern web design, no? CockroachDB, for instance, is able to simultaneously focus on Jepsen-style distributed systems verification and agile administrative interfaces, whose design aesthetic is reflected in the website. And there are plenty of unsupported academia-made databases that are essentially abandonware. I would not advocate for overreliance on this heuristic.
- mistrial9 9y ago
  > unsupported academia-made databases that are essentially abandonware whoa - you are setting yourself up, if that is any reference to Postgres..
  - btown 9y ago
    Wasn't referring to Postgres at all (it's the most solid RDBMS I've worked with). And I may have been unfair to other databases - was just saying that like most tech products, there are varying degrees of business-readiness in the database space.
    - hitekker 9y ago
      In my view, you weren't referring to Postgres. Rather, the cognitive dissonance brought on by the shortcomings of the redesign are making some supporters extra-sensitive to criticism.
- omeid2 9y ago
  > competence in modern enterprise sales can be correlated with modern web design, no? Absolutely not. Design and Sales in Enterprise has as much to do with each other as Sales and Code Quality, almost none.