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0 pointsfennecfoxen12y ago0 comments

SQL databases: Postgres unless you have a reason not to.

From the point of view of NoSQL data stores, it'll really depend on your application needs, and I can't give you a full overview, buuuut.... Amazon did a solid job with its DynamoDB database, and Apache Cassandra did a solid job cloning it. I believe I've also heard decent things about the sanity level of Redis and Hypderdex.

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catwell12y ago

DynamoDB was released in 2012, Cassandra in 2008, so it is definitely not a clone of the former :)

It is loosely based on the Dynamo paper like most modern distributed databases, but Dynamo and DynamoDB are very different things.

Riak could be another interesting option in that space. Redis is more adapted for small datasets with high workloads and low durability expectations (i.e. do not host a Bitcoin exchange purely on it unless you really know what you are doing :p).

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