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SlamData
Company blog · slamdata.com/blogprogrammingdatasystems
SlamData is the company blog at slamdata.com, writing about programming, data and systems. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “SlamData – SQL for MongoDB”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link SlamData's posts on NoSQL analytics and MongoDB, including examples of computation pushed down into MongoDB versus PostgreSQL. Commenters also discuss its NoSQL analytics whitepaper.
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.
Long-form technical writing on distributed systems, storage, compilers, infrastructure and engineering practice.
Most-linked posts?
- SlamData – SQL for MongoDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-26
- MongoDB and the Shocking Case of the Missing JOIN ($lookup)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-21
What Hacker News says?
Don't forget about reflex[0], you can try it here[1]. I also use purescript[2] with purescript-halogen[3] as does slamdata[4]. There's also a video on Purescript halogen[5] that's very interesting. Purescript is great because the JavaScript it generates is so readable, that if you really need to you can understand the output and make micro-optimizations. 0: https://github.com/ryantrinkle/reflex 1: https://github.com…
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on “Developing Web Applications with Haskell”Submitted MongoDB and the Shocking Case of the Missing JOIN ($lookup) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionClassic marketing pitch from a little company that wants to claim it's much more significant than it is: 1. Claim a must-have set of requirements that ... 2. ... happen to match its product's feature set ... 3. ... but not its competitors.' http://slamdata.com/whitepapers/characteristics-of-nosql-ana... is presumably the core of the argument. I tend not to pay attention to such claims until the company rephrases the…
Comment linking /whitepapers/characteristics-of-nosql-analytics-systems/
on “MongoDB 3.2: Now powered by Postgres”Submitted MongoDB and the Shocking Case of the Missing Join ($lookup) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in how much computation gets pushed down into the MongoDB database, versus how much gets pulled back into PostgreSQL, you can find some examples here: http://slamdata.com/blog/2015/12/08/nosql-analytics-for-mong... Warning: It's not pretty.
Comment linking /blog/2015/12/08/nosql-analytics-for-mongodb.html
on “MongoDB 3.2: Now powered by Postgres”Submitted Challenges of Compiling SQL to MongoDB (open source) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSlamData ( http://slamdata.com ) is open source and lets you perform analytics on data in MongoDB. The 2.0 version will have data visualization baked in, but the current one doesn't have that just yet. :(
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on “Ask HN: Do you use MongoDB for analytics?”Submitted MongoDB and the Shocking Case of the Missing JOIN ($lookup) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SlamData – SQL for MongoDB as a story · 1 points
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