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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 46 posts.
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Please don't use pie charts
I don't like pie charts. I don't like them because they fail to convey information. They do that because people have a really hard time ju...
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Facebook's photo storage rewrite
This week Facebook will complete its roll-out of a new photo storage system designed to reduce the social network's reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai. The new large blob storage system, named Haystack, is a custom-built file system solution for the over 850 million photos uploaded to…
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Collaborative Map-Reduce in the browser
After immersing yourself into the field of distributed computing and large data sets you inevitably come to appreciate the elegance of Google's Map-Reduce framework . Both the generality and the simplicity of its map , emit , and reduce phases is what makes it such a powerful tool. However, while Google has made the…
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Put that database in memory
Writings on artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, and the tech industry.
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NoSQL Required Reading
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun
Tonight at 4:30 AM, USA Pacific time, my phone started to ring; it was a call from a Sun employee saying that Oracle has bought Sun and he w...
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Why CouchDB doesn't scale
This is my attempt to clear up some misconceptions about CouchDB and point out some technical details that a lot of people seem to have over...