dennis82

Interesting. How would this play with Mongo?

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 stability.

Now, public workers are better compensated than the private sector and still maintain guarantees for their jobs.

So which is it? Because the way I and many other Californians see it, our state is in such dire straits because unions have squeezed the public dry, run up huge deficits to fund ridiculous pension plans, and haven't done anything beyond baseline to help the People.

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.

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.

this is a good update and not to rain on their parade, but doesn't this seem market redundant and reinvent-the-wheel?

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, network, and IO.

looks like MemSQL is fixing the CPU and IO bottlenecks, but physics is physics so network is pure hardware solution haha

what are the major feature updates on this release compared to last one?

well said!

> "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 just fine, so you have a 'solution' that uses 3 OLTP stores instead of one.

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 first place to solve these very problems around transactionality and analytics for finance.

This library is a beautiful example of reinventing the wheel, and otherwise creating a patchwork of unnecessary - and ultimately brittle - infrastructure.

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 still has problems.

Rethinkdb is just launching a new product that essentially does the same thing as Mongo, but is maybe just a little easier to use.

I think the Yet Another Database (YAD) question still hasn't been answered by this post.

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