ToroDB Stampede
Data
database replication
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Performance: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive performance gains over MongoDB
From 1 comment
Impressive performance, even compared against a Mongo shard with 3 nodes!
3manuek on HN
Relational approach to document data is a sensible idea
From 1 comment
It's so funny to hear sometimes that noSQL is better that SQL databases and see how much more powerful tools can be built using old good relational engines. Also, this story a…
postila on HN
Objections
'Automatic' and 'magic' naming suggests loss of control
From 1 comment
FYI: myself (and I believe a reasonable number of other software developers) treat the word "Automatic" as a red flag. Magic means you don't understand how something works.…
stephenr on HN
Benchmark methodology and hardware specs were unclear
From 1 comment
Hi there! Stampede looks nice, congrats! Quick question about the 100x performance claim and the benchmarks in https://www.8kdata.com/blog/announcing-torodb-stampede-1-0-beta/: -…
javiermaestro on HN
Requests
Benchmark with dataset fitting in RAM on a single MongoDB instance
From 2 comments
Hi there! Stampede looks nice, congrats! Quick question about the 100x performance claim and the benchmarks in https://www.8kdata.com/blog/announcing-torodb-stampede-1-0-beta/: -…
javiermaestro on HNLOL I re-read the article and found the specs. I really read it but somehow managed to skip the paragraph or something :-? Anyway, my point stands. I'd use a single instance in…
javiermaestro on HN
Questions
How optional fields and sparse tables are handled
From 1 comment
How do you deal with optional fields in documents? do you modify the table schema on the run? If there's a larg-ish number of optional fields, but each document has only or a few…
davidpardo on HN
Whether it can run on an existing database and schema
From 1 comment
One of our engineer's recently floated up the idea of using ToroDB Stampede for replacing our MongoDB -> PostgreSQL ETL, since it's merely a set of Python scripts parsing JSON…
kasano on HN
Alternatives named
MongoDB BI Connector
From 3 comments
It's so funny to hear sometimes that noSQL is better that SQL databases and see how much more powerful tools can be built using old good relational engines. Also, this story a…
postila on HNIndeed, MongoDB BI connector v1 was based on PostgreSQL. However, they used 9.4's foreign data wrappers and since those could not push down query clauses, the connector itself…
ahachete on HNI've tried that connector and decided against using it. The problem was you had to define your schema by hand and in mongo sometimes you have legacy data records with different…
eb0la on HN