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Dwight Merriman

CEO & Co-Founder, 10Gen · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dwight Merriman is the CEO and co-founder of 10Gen. He participated in a fireside chat at the NYC Data Business Meetup.

14statements → 6claims → 5claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 3.86/5average certainty → 2.07/5average debate potential → 4.1/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

5 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 4 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dwight argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Merriman: JSON document models will emerge as the standard NoSQL data model
“My belief, which is opinion, is that in, in the end of these NoSQL data models, that the document-oriented model will be the one that kind of converges on for standard, and specifically JSON style, or JSON based.”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 13:07 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.1 / 5 directness 4.3 · coherence 4.2 · precision 3.7 · compression 3.4

answered every one of 9 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

256 words/min while actually speaking · 28.9 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 7,138 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Dwight Merriman said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Held up
Merriman: JSON document models will emerge as the standard NoSQL data model
“My belief, which is opinion, is that in, in the end of these NoSQL data models, that the document-oriented model will be the one that kind of converges on for standard, and specifically JSON style, or JSON based.”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 13:07 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Merriman: Developers will use a few specialized database tools within 5-10 years
“My belief, I'm a little biased, but my belief is that if we kind of project out Say five years, 10 years, is that what we're gonna see is you'll have a few tools in your toolbox for databases.”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 8:57 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Opinion
Merriman: HBase is more directly competitive with MongoDB than Hadoop
“I think Hadoop, or HBase, which is a Hadoop subproject, that's more of a, that's something that's more of an alternative or competitive with Mongo, where you would look at A versus B”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 41:07 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Insight
Merriman: Fast distributed transactions across hundreds of commodity servers are impossible
“If we have a thousand server cluster running on commodity hardware, on a commodity network, and you want to touch data and mutate it that's on 600 servers, and then you want to commit that all or nothing with isolation and option to roll it back, and you want …”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 46:02 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Insight
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”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 3:23 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Insight
Merriman: Open source causes revenue compression relative to proprietary software
“You are going to get some revenue compression, right, by being open source versus not open source if you have the same number of users, right?”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 20:53 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Opinion
Merriman: Startup founders are underweighting B2B enterprise opportunities
“He's right. So I think there is an underweighting of activity on B to B because there's plenty of opportunity there.”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 27:23 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Disclosure
Merriman: 10gen finds engineering hiring easier in NYC than Palo Alto
“I'm actually finding right now, because we're hiring engineers both locations, that we're having a little more luck hiring engineers in New York.”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 31:12 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Disclosure
Merriman: SNMP support is MongoDB's only non-free subscriber feature currently
“Like, I think the only thing in the subscriber edition right now that, that, that is non-free is SNMP support, for example.”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 44:00 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Supported
Merriman: MongoDB only supports single-document ACID transactions
“What we do currently in Mongo is we do these little microtransactions, which sort of, say, give you ACID properties, but only on a single document at a time, right? Because a single JSON document lives on one and only shard in a Mongo cluster at a given point …”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 46:23 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Disclosure
Merriman: Modifying Postgres wouldn't deliver 10gen's desired architecture
“We looked at the traditional stuff and we thought, well, you know, could we take something, can we take Postgres and start changing, you know, changing code and make something we like? And we felt like we would never, Land where we wanted to get to if we did t…”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 48:47 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Supported
Merriman: MongoDB 2.2 eliminates global read-write lock to improve concurrency
“Historically in Mongo, sort of the concurrency in a single MongoD process on a single server has been suboptimal. And, ah, between servers it's been good, but inside a single server it needed a lot of work. So there was a global reader-irelock, which has been …”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 17:34 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Supported
Merriman: In-Q-Tel recently invested in 10gen
“We announced about a week ago that In-Q-Tel invested in TenGen, right?”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 34:52 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Supported
Merriman: MongoDB's name is derived from the word 'humongous'
“Right, so the name is the middle of the word humongous, so it was kind of a play on this concept of scale, right, so that's where the name came from.”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 47:55 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turc Dec 5, 2013 35m
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