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When to use Excel, when to use R?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,225 posts.
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NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin
I’ve been getting solidly flamed recently, as have my former coworkers at Digg, my friends at Twitter, etc. about our adoption and promotion of various NoSQL storage systems. It seems that some DBAs are very, very upset that us internet kids are considering abandoning SQL’s ship. I’m not here to throw out a bunch of…
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Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems
There are so many NoSQL systems these days that it's hard to get a quick overview of the major trade-offs involved when evaluating relational and non-relational systems in non-single-server...
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Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective
Update, 2017-09-25 Hi! This essay is undergoing a long-overdue rewrite. In the meantime, consider my 2015 follow-up essay, Obergefell v. Hodges: the database engineering perspective....
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Six Months of HackerNews Front Page Data
Back in September 2009 I launched a small web app called HNTrends.com, a tool for visualizing the movement of stories on HackerNews’s front page over time. I haven’t worked on the site …
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A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
Interested in Redis? You might be interested in the Redis Handbook I’m currently working on.
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PostgreSQL 9.0 - Hot Standby, Streaming Replication
The BIG feature. The feature that made PostgreSQL leap from 8.4 to 9.0. Patch was written by Fujii Masao, and committed by Heikki Linnakangas on 15th of January 2010:
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Friendly: NoSQL With MySQL in Ruby
I've been a big proponent of NoSQL for a while. I have played with just about all of the new generation of data stores. We almost got cassandra running in production once, and we've been running mongodb in production for about six months now.
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