Akira Kurogane
akiradata.bsky.social
Akira Kurogane
@akiradata.bsky.social
Database nerd
It depends on the quality of engineer hiring for the 'team' in question. I reckon they might have pretty solid retention rates for the SEs I'm thinking of ...
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Yeah, I don't know what to say. It would be nice if it escapes hyperscaler top-down management and gets some real contributions. But at the same time a legacy RDBMS wrapped in another layer is not the MongoDB I want.
August 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
If you want on-prem don't forget Percona gives a much better deal for that too. The product name is a bit awkward - Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) - but it's source-on-demand opensource (they can't do better than that due to SSPL), Including the 'enterprise' extra stuff.
August 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
A postgres-wrapper is not the MongoDB server I want - the performance doesn't compare. But MongoDB Atlas in the reasonable price tiers doesn't have real performance either imo. Document db DBaaS market competition starts now?
August 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
By *someone" you mean you right?
August 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
What I mean is: unikernels have a hope to be just-click-purchase-done deployable to any cloud user; databases on modified linux VMs the user has to maintain don't.
January 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
With the unikernels the OS is out of the hands of the user. The hypothetical unikernel cloud DBaaS provider takes care of that. A big onus to build right, of course. But none of the end-user cloud customers have to provide a Linux admin.
January 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It's a customized Linux kernel. Real-world adoption would be limited to organizations with really good linux admins in their database team. Other research-proven approaches using better-for-dbs drivers in normal Linux, eg. SPDK, haven't succeeded in the commercial world. Likewise for this, I think.
January 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM