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8kdata.com is the company blog at 8kdata.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Announcing ToroDB Stampede 1.0 beta”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link 8kdata.com for ToroDB, a tool that moves MongoDB-style documents into PostgreSQL, and its Stampede announcement. Comments mainly promote the product rather than the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Announcing ToroDB Stampede 1.0 beta
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
  2. ToroDB: A MongoDB-compatible, document-oriented database on top of PostgreSQL
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Actually if you really need to update large JSON documents efficiently, probably the only really efficient technology would be ToroDB http://www.8kdata.com/torodb/

    Comment linking /torodb/

    on ““Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]”
  2. Submitted ToroDB: A MongoDB-compatible, document-oriented database on top of PostgreSQL as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  3. Hi there! Stampede looks nice, congrats! Quick question about the 100x performance claim and the benchmarks in https://www.8kdata.com/blog/announcing-torodb-stampede-1-0-b... : - I don't see any specs and/or methodology published for any of the benchmarks. I'd like to see some specs for the servers used (especially RAM and what HDD or storage type was used). - For the 500GB dataset, I assume that it didn't fit in me…

    Comment linking /blog/announcing-torodb-stampede-1-0-beta/

    on “Show HN: ToroDB Stampede: Automagical MongoDB to PostgreSQL, 100x Faster Queries”
  4. Submitted Announcing ToroDB Stampede 1.0 beta as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Mongo is my biggest issue with that stack, although Angular 1 might be as bad. It's baffling that anyone would start a project with either of those technologies after doing very basic Googling of people's experiences with them. Angular 2 is so dissimilar that it's hard to even lump them together. There's actually a drop-in replacement for Mongo (at least where the client code is concerned) called ToroDB that I'm rea…

    Comment linking /torodb

    on “Show HN: Perfect job?”
  6. Submitted The conundrum of BI/aggregate queries on MongoDB as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted This is how PostgreSQL pages works as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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