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Frenkiel: MemSQL on EC2 achieves 1ms latency vs 60ms for MySQL
“Whenever you go with MM-SQL on EC-II, for example, you will see, like, one millisecond response times, and a Postgres or a MySQL is on the order of 60.”
Kaplan: General-purpose databases fail when scaling to high-volume telemetry
“So yes, in some cases there are, for many use cases, you can use a general purpose database. People have built stuff on Postgres. People have built time series on Mongo. Like those are highly useful. But if you're ingesting huge amounts of data, you want the q…”
Ben Rogojan: Early startups can handle baseline reporting using transactional databases
“Like I think what usually I see happens is like initially people just report off whatever their transactional system is. So if you're using Postgres or something and you're, you know, cause you're you've got some application layer. You can report off that for …”
Writer stores its knowledge graph as flat JSON in Postgres
“I mean, it is a flat JSON file. This is stored in a Postgres database. It's not even, A graph database.”
Hitchcock: SurrealDB runs embedded, single-node, or as a distributed cluster
“So SurrealDB can run as an embedded database, like SQLite. It can run as a single node, like Postgres. Or it can run as a distributed cluster, and you can scale the storage layer, and you can scale the compute layer.”
Abe Gong calls Hasura 'just add water GraphQL' for Postgres databases.
“It's just add water GraphQL for Postgres. So if you've got a Postgres database, then you can point Hasura at it and extremely quickly spin up a GraphQL API for it. And subscriptions, queries, mutations, like you get all of those things. It's all code gen. So t…”
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…”
Stewart: CockroachDB presents as a single Postgres database to developers
“From the point of view of the application developer, it looks like they're talking to a single Postgres database, but it just so happens to be elastically scalable.”
Instacart's data stack relies on Postgres, AWS Redshift, Python, and R
“All of our production data is in Postgres, and we will read from the secondaries in AWS. We push all of the Postgres data into Redshift and do a lot of more intensive batch computations off of Redshift. The data science teams are using either Python or R we do…”