RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience

Re:RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience by SmellTheGlove on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:58PM (#13611406)

And yet when I see data engineering positions, particularly around here, it's all about Hadoop/HDFS, Spark, Cassandra, Mongo. I'm not saying there aren't use cases for those, just that it seems like they've become the default basket of options rather than starting with an RDBMS and figuring out why you shouldn't use that.

I feel like a dinosaur working with Teradata all these years, but it hasn't failed me. Sure we spend some extra time modeling, and then some extra when we need changes, but other than the cost, it's really been solid.

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Re:RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience by threeseed on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:04PM (#13613124)

> but other than the cost

Why do you think people are moving to Hadoop ?

That cost that you glossed over is massive. Teradata is very, very expensive. It's great. It works. But it's expensive. Especially if you want to store large amounts of data e.g. networks or web traffic.

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Re:RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience by SmellTheGlove on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:38PM (#13618196)

Fair enough. I've been in large companies for too long, it seems. We'll pinch pennies over things like coffee and continuing education, but we're still paying those Teradata and SAS bills.

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