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Vibhor Kumar
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Vibhor Kumar's personal blog at vibhorkumar.wordpress.com covers data and programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Cited in a database-choice thread as evidence that PostgreSQL 9.3+ beats MongoDB on speed, via a 2014 post on write operations. The commenter gives no opinion on the post's quality.
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What Hacker News says?
Heck, PostgreSQL 9.3 and above is consistently beating MongoDB in speed for instance. So Relational Databases can be (and often are) very fast databases. http://vibhorkumar.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/write-operation-... I'm not an expert on the subject, but wasn't MapReduce the primary driver of NoSQL? Hadoop/HBase, etc. etc. Key-Value Store definitely (which has been mentioned), but even the most basic Key-Value stor…
Comment linking /2014/05/15/write-operation-mongodb-vs-postgresql-9-3-json/
on “Use the database built for your access model”Submitted pg_background: Make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres Plus Performance Tests - Table Partitioning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upsert using Writable CTE in PostgreSQL 9.1 as a story · 1 points
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