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MinervaDB
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MinervaDB is the company blog at minervadb.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Comparing TokuDB, RocksDB and InnoDB Performance”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links MinervaDB's comparison of InnoDB and RocksDB storage engines as the more detailed source to consult beyond a one-sentence summary. The comment does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Expert 24/7 enterprise database consulting and managed services for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and more, trusted by 900+ enterprises at MinervaDB.
Most-linked posts?
- Comparing TokuDB, RocksDB and InnoDB Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-06
What Hacker News says?
Yes, that's right, InnoDB is the default MySQL storage engine and you can replace InnoDB with RocksDB. To summarize in one sentence, InnoDB is better at reads and RocksDB is better at writes, but if you were making an actual decision you should look at more detailed information than my one-sentence summary, such as: https://minervadb.com/index.php/2018/06/06/a-friendly-compar...
Comment linking /index.php/2018/06/06/a-friendly-comparison-of-innodb-and-myrocks-performance/
on “What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?”Submitted Comparing TokuDB, RocksDB and InnoDB Performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing TokuDB, RocksDB and InnoDB Performance on Intel Xeon Gold 6140 CPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussion