Framing AI agents as the future and apps as the past is mistaken
“It's very similar to what's happening right now with apps and agents. How do you bring apps and agents together as opposed to just talk about the future, which is agents, and the past, which is apps. You know, there was a time when SQL was being looked at in t…”
Pokrass: Every successful company eventually outgrows Postgres for NoSQL
“At some point, every company gets the scale, every successful company gets the scale where Postgres is not cutting it. And then you migrate to some sort of NoSQL database.”
Early NoSQL database versions abandoned strong transactional consistency
“Strong consistency in transactions, and those are things that were dropped in the early versions of NoSQL.”
CockroachDB combines NoSQL elastic scalability with SQL strong consistency
“So, you know, Cockroach bridges the gap. It's both of those things. It has both of those things, and it doesn't compromise.”
SourceForge adopted MongoDB before the term NoSQL was introduced
“That was actually before the term NoSQL, I believe, by about a month or two.”
Gislason: Hadoop and NoSQL are poor for quantitative data aggregation
“Actually we found that Hadoop and most, kind of, no, no SQL solutions are not very good for, kind of, quantitative data when you need to aggregate and, kind of, go across these things.”
Merriman: NoSQL databases omit distributed joins to enable horizontal scaling
“Distributed joins is a hard problem, so the solution that's been chosen by both us with Mongo and the other NoSQL products is to say, you know, we're not going to do joins”