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New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Meet the dbt Fusion Engine: the new Rust-based, industrial-grade engine for dbt"

gqewogpdqa — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:28:44 +0000

This is a huge change - the rewrite in Rust is like… wow. More and more software is being rewritten in Rust it seems.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?"

gqewogpdqa — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:38:31 +0000

Lol. When did you last use MongoDB and why is it a thumbtack?

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions"

gqewogpdqa — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:05:44 +0000

MongoDB is used by enterprises all over the world. It's true that it's the easiest DB to get started with, and it's also true that in the distant past (pre 3.0, back in ~2015), they had some issues. But they now run the financial backends of companies as varied as banks and coinbase and... https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "MongoDB 6 Released"

gqewogpdqa — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:05:59 +0000

absolutely true that this is an area of improvement for MongoDB - moving from a "replica set" (a single shard cluster but without the config server cluster) to a sharded cluster can be hard. Atlas does it for you, but even then it can be hard. My info says they are working very hard on this.

Live resharding indeed helps for a sharded cluster that already exists.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "MongoDB 6 Released"

gqewogpdqa — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:33:23 +0000

Do you have recent data on this auditing stuff you're referencing? MongoDB is growing much faster than Oracle, so maybe it won't fade...

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "MongoDB 6 Released"

gqewogpdqa — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:27:07 +0000

>>>MongoDB also provides single document atomicity.

And multi-document, in sharded clusters. 2018: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-multi-document-aci...

>>>But in RDBMS you can configure the ACID properties. https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/write-concern/

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license"

gqewogpdqa — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:13:21 +0000

It's happened 15+ times before :-) I agree - talking about actual facts - i.e. licenses - is far better. I think SSPL (and AGPL) for that matter, protect freedoms - the freedoms of small companies to innovate and not have their work gobbled up and used by gorillas who have the power of distribution and platform. I don't know about the deals MongoDB has made with these 15+ cloud providers, but clearly it's working somehow. That said, maybe they would indeed not license to the three "biggies". Though it's unclear that those will be the three biggies for too much longer. Thanks for the clear comment back - sorry for being snarky in my note.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license"

gqewogpdqa — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:42:21 +0000

>This is basically the anti-AWS license: for AWS to run MongoDB proper, they'd need to expose source for huge amounts of their backplane.

Not true. For AWS to run MongoDB proper, they could just negotiate with MongoDB to offer it as a managed service - as Tencent, Alibaba, SAP, IBM, Swisscom, OVH and 10+ others have.

> It's also not open source under almost anyone's definition.

Enter the OSI. While it not be "Open Source" (note the capitals) I don't think anybody has the right to legislate the use of "open source" with lower case letters. A nit, but an important one - the capitals force us to realize that it's not a word in Webster's Dictionary. It's a proper noun definiton put forth and pushed by one organization. I can certainly say "...oracle is lying..." but if I say "...Oracle is lying...", I expect the black cars to drive up to my house pretty quickly.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "MongoDB Releases Queryable Encryption Preview"

gqewogpdqa — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:36:25 +0000

Nope it’s implemented on the server side. I think that they are going to talk more about it at a session and maybe even in a keynote

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Warp: Lightweight Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores"

gqewogpdqa — Sun, 29 May 2022 23:28:38 +0000

"bike shedding" is a well known term of art in many places. That said, it might not be as prevalent as I think (or obviously OP thought). But, I was able to find that it's quite common with a quick Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Warp: Lightweight Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores"

gqewogpdqa — Sun, 29 May 2022 23:27:01 +0000

Haha. Key-value is meant (IMO) to show the connection between the key and the value. You're right, it's not a "key value" store, where "key" is an adjective modifying "value" to show that is only stores the most important values. The "-", again IMO, shows that there is a mapping between each key and each value. But geez, I think we knew what was meant :-)

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "I'm all-in on server-side SQLite"

gqewogpdqa — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:50:23 +0000

Yeah, I think MongoDB went through a set of steps - atomically consistent at document level (which is fine for many apps as you have most related data in the single document anyways) - atomically consistent within a collection - and now, with MongoDB 4.0 and higher (released in 2017? 2018? whatever, a long time ago), MongoDB supports full transactional consistency across documents, collections, and shards. It took them awhile, but they got there.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Coinbase stock lost over 75% value"

gqewogpdqa — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:25:18 +0000

Google didn't acquire Snowflake - unless you know something the rest of the world doesn't ;-) But if they did, how would it be "an answer to MongoDB"? i.e. MongoDB Atlas. AFAIK, MongoDB is focused mostly on the operational database market, not the offline analytics market. Would love to understand that part - thanks!

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Why Don't You Use"

gqewogpdqa — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:36:51 +0000

Lol. I heartily endorse people making proper choices based on their needs. With the proliferation of shiny things for developers, it's really important for people to have this focus. Very good point.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Why Don't You Use"

gqewogpdqa — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 22:23:47 +0000

Oracle V2 was known as the "roach motel of databases". Data went in and it didn't come out. By V5, Oracle was a solid database. Why do people not give MongoDB the credit for growing up from a memory-mapped db to something far more serious, where they say they have ACID transactions, HA, a managed cloud service, etc? The industry memory of that meme is impressive, hilarious...and misplaced.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit"

gqewogpdqa — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:19:21 +0000

Amazon didn't implement an entirely new database. As you can see on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_DocumentDB, they just built an (admittedly clever) PostgreSQL plugin on top of Aurora PostgreSQL.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit"

gqewogpdqa — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:15:40 +0000

AWS never hosted MongoDB, under AGPL or SSPL.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "I would like a job writing Haskell"

gqewogpdqa — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:39:23 +0000

Thanks for that info. Statistics, misunderstandings, lies, benchmarks, database benchmarks...

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS"

gqewogpdqa — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:09:12 +0000

As, surprisingly, did so many other databases and operating systems. VAX/VMS was "FIELD/SERVICE" on all new systems for many years.Then all these systems got connected to DECNet/BITNET, etc and all heck broke loose. No real excuse for anybody to have ever configured their systems this way.

New comment by gqewogpdqa in "Quitting Dgraph Labs"

gqewogpdqa — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:07:37 +0000

What does “eat section 13” mean? The SSPL part? Are you looking to offer a cloud-based managed MongoDB database service to the public? If not, you can do pretty much anything you want with the code. There has been a lot of FUD posted but really, taking the community code and offering a parasite service like Amazon did with other databases is the only thing prohibited by section 13. And unless you have a lot of energy and time you probably can’t be competitive with Atlas, their managed service, as it has a lot of stuff built around the database. Just my opinion, but I am curious about the “eat” part. Of course if you are just allergic to anything different than pure Apache 2.0 regardless of the fact that SSPL has no business impact on you, that’s completely ok