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by assface 10y ago
It's called Postgres because it was the second DBMS that Stonebraker started after Ingres. So it's "post Ingres", or "post gres"
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by assface 10y ago
RL is huge in pornography.
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by assface 10y ago
Good for you, but maybe you should read the article first.
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by assface 10y ago
> It would be interesting to see a list of features from major database management systems that have been removed over the years. The only other thing I can think of right now are in-memory optimized indexes (e.g., T-Trees) from the 198
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by assface 10y ago
This is an old idea. It was in the original version of Postgres from Berkeley in the 1980s. They ended up taking it out in 1998 because systems kept running out of disk space: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.3/st
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by assface 10y ago
> Not the entire point. Relational databases have schemas that are not well suited to graph structures, and SQL is also a barrier. The latest research disagrees with your statement: http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers&
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by assface 10y ago
I can't go into details, but it wasn't that much. The public number for "buying" CMU's NREC is $5.5 million. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/uber-would-like-t...
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by assface 10y ago
> I think Datomic which has been doing time series data for years now answers the "what’s the big deal" question for me: This is known as "time travel queries". Postgres supported this back in the original version fr
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by assface 11y ago
> This is one of the most exciting DB's coming into the world, and I've had a lot of fun watching progress from the sidelines! I'm going to have to disagree. The German HyPer DBMS has a lot more interesting ideas. Cockroa
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by assface 11y ago
You are actually not far off. Sybase was founded by Bob Epstein, who was Stonebraker's student at Berkeley and helped build the original INGRES system.
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by assface 11y ago
> Not really. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars together cost something on the order of $750 billion, which was less than one year of stimulus spending at the beginning of the current administration. Ignore this person. They don't know
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by assface 11y ago
The conference was in June 2015. The paper would have been submitted for peer review in Summer/Fall 2014. Which means that it could have been written in Winter/Spring 2014. SIGMOD is not like a dev conference where you can change
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by assface 11y ago
Why can't you do this in a relational DBMS? Recent research says it that would probably be faster. The Case Against Specialized Graph Analytics Engines http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper20.pdf
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by assface 11y ago
Internal development or just usage/administration?
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by assface 11y ago
> The same query when ran on DB2 took 12 hours, on postgres (5x more data) it took 24 hours. You're doing it wrong. These type of queries should be run on a column store (e.g., Vertica).
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by assface 11y ago
Does anybody actually use any of CitusData's stuff in production? I've heard that their free extensions are mostly junk and then when they don't work they try to get you to buy their proprietary components.
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by assface 11y ago
Because it's 2015.
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by assface 11y ago
> Not many 30 year olds have both the body and the mentality to wear the American Apparel clothes that they bought when they were in university. Speak for yourself. http://i.imgur.com/C4C9Llb.jpg I'm going to grave
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by assface 11y ago
This ship sailed 10 years ago. It's too little too late. The real question is whether python3 can avoid the same fate...
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by assface 11y ago
> I've yet to see any one industry that has been nationalised as is performing better (in every sense) than the private sector. The nationalized health care programs seem to be performing better in other countries than ours.
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by assface 11y ago
Lamport clocks are logical. You can think of these as physiological.
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by assface 11y ago
> Dear Micron, brace for a mother of all patent lawsuits from HP. Ignore this person. They don't know what they are talking about. This is phase-change memory. It's been on everyone's radar for the last decade. HP is push
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by assface 11y ago
All of the academic stream systems from the early 2000s are long over. The students have all graduated. Truviso got bought by Cisco and disappeared into their internal projects. StreamBase got bought by TIBCO and is still available today.
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by assface 11y ago
Awesome. Welcome to 1998.
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by assface 11y ago
> "People come here because they say they can hear the electrics" That phrase is straight out of a Deliverance-like horror film.
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by assface 11y ago
There is a significant storage overhead due to all of the data that is collected about the computation (the "dynamic dependency graph"). The storage overhead is massive. It's a non-starter with this approach. Our experiment
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by assface 11y ago
> It’s left to the operating system to determine the working set and to transfer pages between main memory and secondary storage Sigh. Good ol' mmap. They should ask MongoDB how they went for them. Then they should read Stonebraker&
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by assface 12y ago
Fun Fact: Stonebraker used to party with Michael Jackson in the early 1980s when Thriller came out: https://youtu.be/LCXWF-OEIkc?t=6m17s
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Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award(newsoffice.mit.edu)
528 points by assface 12y ago|74 comments
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by assface 12y ago
Mmm... they were just doing shared-data distributed MVCC. Nothing new there. My takeaway from spending some time with the documentation that their SQL layer was a hack.

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