NoSQL

[nav3d]

Well that was disappointingly one sided. 

[unantastbar2]

Lecture/presentation was quite good, but that laughter .. I feld like while watching a sitcom :|

[alexjbriiones]

You have to be a nerd to understand the hysterical laughter

[jonathanheaton]

Y'now, Y'now, Y'now (laugh). I don't know.

[lonelyhollow]

Freaks :D why do they laugh like that, common ... nosql is great but making fun of relational dbs is fucking stupid because 90% of th world is running on them

[marcuskielly]

@lonelyhollow I think you've missed the point of the video...

[umututkan]

He is biased since he is married to MySQL, too desperate. I would have expected some serious thoughts besides joking from a person like himself. Do not watch it is a waste of time.

[shandee6661]

Brain Aker is an academic masturbator who needs to cut his clown hair style.

[jbperez808]

It is funny... until you realize how unfunny the headaches you will face once you need to scale out relational data stores to the same degree that NoSQL stores are meant to handle.

[jbperez808]

The relational features discussed are indispensable and is why the "NoSQL" alternatives have to provide analogs. These analogs are in fact *harder* and less transparent to use! So why?

Because of an impt. tradeoff: it makes it much much easier to "cloud-ify" your data store (e.g. replication and scale out).

Having to deal with group by, order by, etc... operations at a lower level, may be a step backward, but easily replication and scaling out is more impt. in many situations.

[joristube]

This is the most annoying presentation ever....

[glipquux]

Am I listening to somebody eat in the background here, ugh

[sdcharle]

As a database guy I understand this guy's fear, but he really needs to read up a bit more before he gives his next talk. He seems to have succeeded in missing the point. Group by = Map Reduce is a pretty ignorant. If he'd focused on the fact that these sort of things are for certain use cases and for most people RDBMS is the thing to use (they are perfectly good), that may have been a better approach.

[bigbold2]

Interesting presentation but scary audience.. hysterical laughter at absolutely nothing a lot of the time, weird!

[MrDanielBang]

@bigbold2 .... i think they smoked a lot before going sitting down to this presentation....

omg,... have you seen his hair.. and lack of it?

[xhnpohugafsd]

@zenbyo: The elephant is the mascot for PostgreSQL, the dolphin for MySQL. In the past, MySQL users and developers have argued that transactions were unnecessary in a relational database while those on the PostgreSQL side have held that they were an essential part. In recent years, MySQL has put more emphasis on "advanced" database features like transactions and has been mocked for thinking they were unnecessary in the first place. Look up MyISAM and InnoDB for more info.

[StoneCypher]

@xhnpohugafsd What MySQL developer ever said transactions were unnecessary? You're making shit up.

[TheFuzzyChef]

StoneCypher,

David Axemark, one of the two founders of MySQL, said it repeatedly and in many locations from 1999 to 2001.

[StoneCypher]

So I just went through the top 100 hits in Google for david axmark transaction, and whereas I find a lot of things in 2003 where he talks about how important it is that they're about to get transactions, I'm not able to find an example of his saying transactions are unnecessary.

Could you provide a more specific reference than a name and a three year range?

[mmoncure11]

The picture is about postgresql/mysql. The postgresql mascot is elephant and mysql mascot is dolphin.

[zenbyo]

Can someone explain the picture to me @ 4:52?

[silverskein]

I believe that to be a beefed up version of the PostgreSQL mascot roasting a rendering of the MySQL dolphin.

[getatiger4you]

Excelent compare of nonsql to SQL databases

[ccharlton2]

If you are a database junkie, this video is for you.

[monarque36698]

Super amusant, bien joué !