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by dennis82 13y ago
Interesting. How would this play with Mongo?
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by dennis82 13y ago
They voted to strike. And yes, they assuredly are "public servants." It used to be that in exchange for working for the public and taking a lower salary, you'd be cushioned and shielded from recessions, in exchange for more s
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by dennis82 13y ago
We the People pay and employ public workers. Ergo, We the People are entitled to see their salaries, and in this particular case, how badly they're "ripping off" the Public in general.
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GigaOm's Cloud Trailblazers for 2013 has Firebase and MemSQL(gigaom.com)
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by dennis82 13y ago
no, it's categorically not good to make an application more fragile. A weakness restated is not a strength. Every database should have an optimizer, period.
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by dennis82 13y ago
this is a good update and not to rain on their parade, but doesn't this seem market redundant and reinvent-the-wheel?
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by dennis82 13y ago
I have to disagree; disk is ancient - it's mechanical egads! - while 10GigE is pretty commonplace now and infiniband and fiber channel are even faster. back from my CS 101 takeaways: there are only 3 bottlenecks in a computer system: CPU, n
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by dennis82 13y ago
what are the major feature updates on this release compared to last one?
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by dennis82 14y ago
well said!
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by dennis82 14y ago
> "We use MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Impala." Thanks for the clarification, but this makes it even more obvious your engineering team is introducing needless complexity into your organization. Postgres can store unstructured data j
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by dennis82 14y ago
are you kidding me? There is absolutely NO reason whatsoever to use a NoSQL database for a financial services company. Postgres is more than capable of sustaining the necessary speeds of a startup. Relational databases were created in the f
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by dennis82 14y ago
this is marketing cloaked in a developer portal. I think it's great that rethinkdb is trying to distinguish themselves from Mongo, but what's the real marginal utility of a rethinkdb over Mongo? Mongo has been around for years, and it stil
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by dennis82 14y ago
Cloudera is primarily a consulting company, as are most open-source companies. There have been only 3 successful open source companies ever: MySQL, Jboss, and Redhat