Infreqdb
Data
key value database
SHOW HN2017
39points
28comments
#912of 2,242 in 2017
Top 41%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful idea; batching writes enables high-volume timeseries storage
From 1 comment
Stuff like this is great! And you said you mentioned you are primarily doing it for timeseries data - then you can easily batch writes to handle high volume throughput too! We…
marknadal on HN
Objections
Costs dominated by PUT requests; retries can rack up charges
From 2 comments
Be careful using S3 for lots of small writes. The price is utterly dominated by the PUT calls which cost $0.01/1000.
spullara on HNBe most careful with retries. Saw a case where the bucket wasn't writable and the code just retried in a loop. You get charged for the API call, successful or not.
spullara on HN
Requests
Clarify pricing in README calculations
From 1 comment
Yes. I should include this info in the README calcs. For my usecase I intend to do 4 - 10 PUTs per hour, since they are batched. 10 PUTS/h = 7300 PUTs/month = $0.073/month. The…
sajal83 on HN
Questions
How does it differ from AWS Athena?
From 1 comment
How is this different than AWS Athena ? - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/ Also why don't you dump the log data into…
udkl on HN
Why not DynamoDB instead of S3?
From 2 comments
How is this different than AWS Athena ? - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/ Also why don't you dump the log data into…
udkl on HNMaybe you should take another look at pricing? DynamoDB is like $0.002/GB/month more expensive than S3 for storage. Requests are more expensive, but you're also not reinventing…
eropple on HN
Alternatives named
AWS Athena
From 1 comment
How is this different than AWS Athena ? - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/ Also why don't you dump the log data into…
udkl on HN
DynamoDB
From 1 comment
How is this different than AWS Athena ? - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/ Also why don't you dump the log data into…
udkl on HN
MinIO
From 1 comment
If your data storage requirement is semi-constant at 1.5TB and is ephemeral, have you looked at just using your own replicated servers ? That would probably turn out to be…
udkl on HN
TrailDB
From 1 comment
We use a similar approach with TrailDB. You can make S3 access totally seamless with user-space page fault handling, which is pretty cool:…
vtuulos on HN
Datomic
From 1 comment
So, a database that's has a file format of write-once content-addressed "shards" and is persisted/distributed by "offlining" those shards into object storage, and then "onlining"…
derefr on HN
CouchDB
From 1 comment
> The world needs an open-source, non-JVM-targeted Datomic.) Couchdb?
reubano on HN