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Vineet Gupta
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Vineet Gupta's personal blog at vineetgupta.com covers data and programming. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Vineet Gupta's NoSQL posts, including a multi-part survey of the database landscape, as an overview of the field and its many systems.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-01-05
What Hacker News says?
One I wrote: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2009/11/09/nosql-ecosyste... Another, that goes into even more detail (imo, too much for one article, but a good article all the same): http://www.vineetgupta.com/2010/01/nosql-databases-part-1-la... Benchmarking systems w/ very different data models is difficult to impossible, which is why you don't see that in this kind of survey piece. You're best off by picking one…
Comment linking /2010/01/nosql-databases-part-1-landscape.html
on “Twitter Drops MySQL For Cassandra”Submitted NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape as a story · 36 points
HN discussionCouchDB is an MVCC document store, it isn't concerned with scaling the way Cassandra, HBase and Voldemort are. This is a pretty good overview of the landscape http://www.vineetgupta.com/2010/01/nosql-databases-part-1-la...
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on “Reddit joins Digg, Twitter on Cassandra”Submitted Crypto 101 as a story · 14 points
HN discussionTo answer your question I think things will settle down -- in the long run it's too hard for developers to deal with all the alternatives and their differences. To get a high-level overview of the NOSQL space you could read this blog entry: http://blogs.neotechnology.com/emil/2009/11/nosql-scaling-to... As Ben Scofield puts it (cited in that post): "NoSQL DBs often provide better substrates for modeling business dom…
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on “Ask HN: Why are there so many NoSQL databases?”Submitted NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape as a story · 4 points
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