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YottaDB
Company blog · yottadb.comsystemsprogramming
YottaDB is the company blog at yottadb.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “YottaDB”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention yottadb.com as an open-source M/MUMPS database and implementation, listed alongside alternatives such as Reference Standard M. None of the comments judge the site's 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.
YottaDB is a new kind of database company, delivering a proven database engine to your application, enhancing simplicity, security, stability & scalability.
Most-linked posts?
- YottaDB3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-15
What Hacker News says?
https://gitlab.com/Reference-Standard-M/rsm is small, no-frills, really cool. http://yottadb.com if you want one with all the bells and whistles.
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on “MUMPS”Submitted Nimetic – Zero-JS Single Page Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe most obvious alternative is https://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/ , but there are a few others, depending on the size of the application at hand. https://yottadb.com/ is another big one which started on GT.M a few years ago, or http://minimdb.com/ . See also https://www.mumps.dev/implementations.cfm . If you don't depend on the MUMPS/ANSI-M language or don't have to be backwards compatible, a lot more altern…
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on “A Case of the Mumps (2007)”Submitted Making Lua-yottadb 4x as fast looping through database records as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are newer versions of M/MUMPS around and some of them are open-source such as YottaDB https://yottadb.com/ and Reference Standard M https://gitlab.com/Reference-Standard-M/rsm . I've never been quite brave enough to try to build something with it.
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on “The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition”Submitted YottaDB as a story · 2 points
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