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Knut Haugen
Personal blog · blog.knuthaugen.noprogramming
Knut Haugen writes All About the Code, a personal blog at blog.knuthaugen.no about programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on the brief history of NoSQL, which says non-relational databases go back to the 1960s and predate the relational model. Comments cite it as a source, with no judgment of 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.
Knut Haugens blog about programming and all things related to programming.
Most-linked posts?
- /2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-05
What Hacker News says?
Lotus Notes was first. Distributed, replicated key value store. Actually I'm not right: http://blog.knuthaugen.no/2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.h...
Comment linking /2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.html
on “A Decade of Dynamo”Submitted Systems Thinking applied to software development as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL." No, sorry, it was Memcached and Bigtable paper that popularized "NoSQL" term. Although there were many NoSQL databases tracing way back to 60s [1], those were the ones that "served as catalyst" for the term "NoSQL". [1] http://blog.knuthaugen.no/2010/03/a-brief-hi…
Comment linking /2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.html
on “A Decade of Dynamo”Meanwhile, non-relational databases go back at least to in '60s and predate the relational model. http://blog.knuthaugen.no/2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.h...
Comment linking /2010/03/a-brief-history-of-nosql.html
on “NoSQL: The Love Child of Google, Amazon and ... Lotus Notes”