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Unfortunately you were downvoted, but it wasn't so long ago on HN that every second story was NoSQL this, NoSQL that. There were even "SQL is dead"/"relational
by cgh 12y ago
Unfortunately you were downvoted, but it wasn't so long ago on HN that every second story was NoSQL this, NoSQL that. There were even "SQL is dead"/"relational DBs are dead" posts, just ridiculous. So it's nice to see stories like this.
I've been writing a lot of recursive queries for Postgresql lately using CTEs. Quite cool though a little mindbending at times.
- michaelchisari 12y agoI remember those days. I was never sold on NoSQL, but if anything can be said, it lit a fire under SQL and competition in the space was ultimately a good thing. Glad I didn't go all in on NoSQL, though.
- crdoconnor 12y agoHN is very fad-oriented.
- andybak 12y agoExcept some fads turn out to be long-term trends, so it's worth keeping one eye open.
- crdoconnor 12y agoAbsolutely, but it pays to be very skeptical and to pay closer attention to the negative "I have used this technology and it sucks because [links to the bug tracker]" articles than the ones that gush about how great they are.
- davidgerard 12y agoThere's probably a trendy Hacker News technology lifestyle cycle chart to be drawn, step 3 or 4 of which is "developer is bitten by deficiency in the technology, writes blog post saying it sucks and not to use it, gets 200 points and front page".
- davidgerard 12y agoThe main reason I read HN is to keep up with whatever manic fancy will catch the developers' eyes this week, leading to me supporting it for a couple of years.