Comments on Jonathan Levin's Axioms: MySQL & NoSQL Survey

Interesting survey. It would be great in your foll...

2011-03-14T15:29:09.345Z

Interesting survey. It would be great in your follow up if people could comment on why they choose one versus another. We often see people look for alternatives to MySQL because their insertion rates drop off when the database becomes too large for the primary index to fit in RAM. Rather than throw the SQL baby out with the the MySQL bathwater, we recommend upgrading MySQL's storage engine to TokuDB which is optimized for these workload

Hello Roland, I guess I could have been more spec...

2011-03-14T12:30:53.791Z

Hello Roland,

I guess I could have been more specific in what I am asking.
At the moment, I am just trying to identify a trend that I have seen first hand in quite a few companies.

I shall publish the results of this survey after a few days and then in the future I can do another one which is more specific.

Best Regards
Jonathan

Jonathan, wouldn't it be more useful to ask ...

2011-03-14T10:40:05.806Z

Jonathan,

wouldn't it be more useful to ask which specific NoSQL products people are using? Since NoSQL is still pretty much a bucket term, you simply cannot be sure what respondents count as NoSQL, making the poll pretty much useless IMO.

For instance, some will and some won't count memcached as NoSQL, some will and some won't count graph db's as NoSQL, and the list goes on and on.

If i were to do a poll like this, I'd probably list the 10 (maybe 20) most heard of products that are generally counted as NoSQL and leave room for an "other" category too.

Another point of arguably lesser importance is "MySQL" - you can't be sure nowadays what pepole count as NoSQL. Esp. in maria you have the blob streaming engine and the graph engine, which could be used to solve some typical NoSQL problems (or at least some people my try that). So this item could be improved to ask which MySQL/MariaDB/etc storage engines people are using.