nirushiv

There are so many options when picking a database, and I haven’t found anything close to a definitive guide (except MongoDB stealth marketing on Quora) on this topic.

To ask the simplest version of this question, what is the best choice of database for a read heavy, low write application?

How about a high write, low read one? Similar read and write volumes?

Is read/write latency a different consideration than throughput? How does that affect your choice?

Finally, are there benchmarks or objective comparisons I can find somewhere?

Thank you

Hey HN,

A friend and I are working on a SaaS productivity tool. Not our first venture, but we realized that building email+password login is a huge PITA because of password management/ password recovery / signup confirmation emails / weird ‘email not verified’ states / spammy signups / spammy logins / forgotten email / change email or password and many other cases we need to handle.

So we are thinking - why not offer only social login (at least for our MVP)?? It certainly seems much more preferable as we can focus on our core business, but it’s also so hard to find successful companies that went this route? How important is native email/password login anyway?

Are there any examples of companies that were successful with only social login (Login with Google / Github etc)? Will I alienate our users by going this route?

Hello HN

I’ve been looking for a tool that would let me and my team search across SaaS services we subscribe to.

For example, our team uses Google Drive, but teams we work with use Dropbox sometimes. Similarly with Github, Figment, Azure, Notion (some use Confluence) and a few other tools. It’s an absolute pain to curate (we’ve tried) and search for things across them.

We haven’t been able to find any commercial tools that fit the bill, and CTO insists that because we deal with sensitive data, a trusted/certified vendor (based on industry standards for data protection) is needed. No such vendors found.

I convinced him that an open-source tool, with a security audit (we have a great security team that routinely tracks down vulnerabilities in popular tools) is also passable.

I understand this would be very useful for a lot of people outside our company.

- If something like this exists, and someone here knows about it, please point me towards it. I’d be so grateful and will buy you a coffee.

- If a simpler version of this exists, I have approval to contribute to the project and possibly bring some more dedicated man hours from the company.

- If it does not exist, I’m also willing to help start/maintain such an open source project. We agree it’s worth pursuing. If you’re interested, please let me know in the comments or through email.