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Author here. Thanks for sharing! My choices are pretty coloured by personal experience, and I didn't want to re-tread anything from the book (Redis/Valkey, Neo
by mble_ 2y ago
Author here.
Thanks for sharing! My choices are pretty coloured by personal experience, and I didn't want to re-tread anything from the book (Redis/Valkey, Neo4j etc) other than Postgres - mostly due to Postgres changing _a lot_ over the years.
I had considered an OSS Dynamo-like (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, kinda), or a Calvin-like (FaunaDB), but went with FoundationDB instead because to me, that was much more interesting.
After a decade of running DBaaS at massive scale, I'm also pretty biased towards easy-to-run.
- leeoniya 2y agowas hoping to see https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb on the list maybe 2026, or some bonus content for 2025 :) https://www.greptime.com/blogs/2024-09-09-report-summary https://www.greptime.com/blogs/2024-09-09-report-summary
- timbotron 2y agoI'm curious why you said you don't find MongoDB interesting?
- mble_ 2y agoI lived through the MongoDB hype cycle. For document databases, I'm more interested in things like PoloDB and SurrealDB.
- aravindputrevu 2y agoEx-Surrealer here. Thanks for listing us. Never thought someone on HN would cite us esp when it comes to MongoDB.
- timbotron 2y agoI agree mongo is overhyped and attracts a lot of web newbies who only know javascript and don't want to think through schemas, although one interesting newer feature of mongo is time series collections -- unfortunately they are a bit buggy but they're getting better seem like a legitimate non-relational use case.
- biggestlou 2y agoAs a co-author of the book of the same name, I’m disappointed that you didn’t see fit to provide any kind of attribution
- mble_ 2y agoIt was not intentional. I've corrected this oversight, and attribution is now provided - my apologies.