Re:Goodbye Tokyo Cabinet, hello PostgreSQL
by briancarper on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @05:47PM
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Why? Because it's a fun project to play with and a good way to learn. SQLite3 probably would work, yes.
I agree, this post shouldn't influence anyone. Not sure why it was submitted to HN.
Re:Goodbye Tokyo Cabinet, hello PostgreSQL
by khingebjerg on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:52AM
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I submitted it because I like reading about your experiments with your blog, and I thought others would like it too.
A person hacking on his own stuff, just to try out things, is hacker news to me.
He writes:
"I have no idea how to use a key/value store database properly."
You don't need a database, or object-store or anything fancy to get decent performance for a personal blog. I use Chronicle and it spits out flat files; lighttpd uses sendfile(2) and everything is fast. FWIW, his blog software is one he wrote in Clojure:
http://github.com/briancarper/cow-blog/tree/0.2.0
For read-intensive applications, Sqlite3 would do just well.
This write-up should not influence anyone with respect to the (de)merits of MySQL, TokyoCabinet or Postgres.