Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore

Re:Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore by StavrosK on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:33AM (#15712843)

I think you're greatly underestimating both the effort of changing a datastore from under a live application and the free time developers in a startup have.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore by pandama on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:46AM (#15712967)

Oh, wait. So you should actually think about what you're trying to build and what would work best for it? I just read this hilarious blog post that said the opposite. This is all too hard, I'll just use Postgres(R).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Startup Mistakes: Choice of Datastore by StavrosK on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:51AM (#15712999)

By "Said the oppposite" do you mean this part?:

> Think before you pick a database. If you insist on not thinking, pick PostgreSQL. Trust me.

[ Parent | on HN ]