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All Things Data
Personal blog · newbiedba.wordpress.comdataprogramming
All Things Data is a personal blog at newbiedba.wordpress.com about data and programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its critique of an EnterpriseDB benchmark comparing MongoDB and PostgreSQL, and a follow-up post that concludes PostgreSQL is the better choice on 99th-percentile latency.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2017/05/26/thoughts-on-postgresql-json-vs-mongodb-json-performance/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-02
What Hacker News says?
From your link, go to https://newbiedba.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/thoughts-on-postg... for the followup after he wrote those benchmarks. When he ran his benchmarks, he indeed got better throughput on MongoDB. But the 99% performance was massively worse - in fact slow enough to be unacceptable. To an extent that he concluded that you'd be better off using PostgreSQL. And he's right. As pages like http://latencytipofth…
Comment linking /2017/11/27/thoughts-on-postgresql-json-vs-mongodb-json-performance-part-iii-final/
on “MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions”The EnterpriseDB benchmark is just a hit piece. See https://newbiedba.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/thoughts-on-postg...
Comment linking /2017/05/26/thoughts-on-postgresql-json-vs-mongodb-json-performance/
on “MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions”That EnterpriseDB benchmark is a comically inept hit piece. See: https://newbiedba.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/thoughts-on-postg...
Comment linking /2017/05/26/thoughts-on-postgresql-json-vs-mongodb-json-performance/
on “The Marketing Behind MongoDB”look at this article on why that benchmark was bullshit. https://newbiedba.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/thoughts-on-postg...
Comment linking /2017/05/26/thoughts-on-postgresql-json-vs-mongodb-json-performance/
on “Startup Engineers and Our Mistakes with MongoDB”