database_guy

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by database_guy 5y ago
At work I have a multi-petabyte cluster in MongoDB Atlas with no issues. The managed service is fantastic; I'm going to need some citations on how it degrades after a few terabytes. I don't really like MongoDB's document-mode
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by database_guy 5y ago
It started as a proprietary database. Apple acquired it and then open sourced it eventually.
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by database_guy 5y ago
I lamented this exact situation in a post I made last week. I'm with you on this completely.
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by database_guy 5y ago
Fair point re: "someone has to start the project". I think Yugabyte is neat, and I want to invest in it as a platform, but I can't help but look at the project and feel like it's not set up for success should the Yugabyt
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by database_guy 5y ago
I really liked RethinkDB (maybe even loved?), but its demise is one of those cautionary tales that makes me wary of these single-corporate-sponsor databases.
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by database_guy 5y ago
Cassandra does feel the best here to me. Thanks for the experience report, maybe I should test out how it runs when confined to somewhat small scale.
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by database_guy 5y ago
My point is that for small scale for my uses the differences between these databases are mostly academic. I am fully confident in my ability to model data around their various constraints and get them to do pretty much anything. I also unde
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by database_guy 5y ago
Perhaps I'll have to test it out at larger data sizes. The performance document makes it sound like this is here-there-be-dragons territory. I'd love to see how the database holds up at 100GB. Rqlite is a great project and I'
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by database_guy 5y ago
I agree, if you want to offload a lot of this to Kubernetes there seems to be quite a bit more out there. Percona has some neat stuff.
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by database_guy 5y ago
Yeah, sounds like most folks agree this doesn't exist simply because it's very challenging to implement.
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by database_guy 5y ago
Rqlite is an awesome project but it's not intended for use above a couple GB, like etcd. Sorry, dataset size is what I meant by cluster-size which was a confusing way to put it. You're right, I don't care about the number of
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by database_guy 5y ago
I have contributed code to projects "owned" by one of these types of organizations and after 8 months of waiting for my (very small) patches to be reviewed because I wasn't internal, it just didn't feel like healthy Open
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by database_guy 5y ago
I am very interested in any project that implements multi-active SQLite clusters with no cluster size limit, do you have any links for me?
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by database_guy 5y ago
From my research I think Cockroach, Yugabyte, and Scylla are all interesting and solid products depending on the exact API/guarantees you're looking for. For products I don't even have the option to self-host I think DynamoDB
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Ask HN: Why are there no easy-to-use highly-available open source databases?
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