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Curt Monash
Personal blog · dbms2.com · on HN as CurtMonashdatabusiness
Curt Monash's personal blog at dbms2.com covers data and business. Since 2008, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 105 times, most often “The cardinal rules of DBMS development”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- The cardinal rules of DBMS development4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-09-26
- The Database Architecture of Salesforce.com3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-28
- Facebook, Hadoop, and Hive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-05-11
- /2008/02/18/mike-stonebraker-calls-for-the-complete-destruction-of-the-old-dbms-order/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-02-19
- Spark on fire2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-30
- EBay’s two enormous data warehouses 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-30
- Solve the network neutrality dilemma and make money too2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-14
- Privacy and data use — a gap in the theory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-08
- Oracle as the New IBM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-02
What Hacker News says?
First in with my recent musings as to whether behemoth companies would own the AI space. http://www.dbms2.com/2015/12/01/what-is-ai-and-who-has-it/
Comment linking /2015/12/01/what-is-ai-and-who-has-it/
on “Introducing OpenAI”Submitted Details on the Oracle failure at JPMorgan Chase as a story · 66 points
HN discussionOn the new age tech, these may help: https://hadoopweekly.com/ http://www.wildml.com/newsletter/ https://thomaswdinsmore.com/ http://www.dbms2.com/
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on “Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?”Submitted Notes on indexes and index-like structures as a story · 48 points
HN discussionAn out of process, memory-first, strictly consistent, distributed, data structure store. --- Also see: https://www.dbms2.com/2008/02/18/mike-stonebraker-calls-for-...
Comment linking /2008/02/18/mike-stonebraker-calls-for-the-complete-destruction-of-the-old-dbms-order/
on “Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News”Submitted EBay’s two enormous data warehouses as a story · 23 points
HN discussionCMU's Andy Pavlo is probably at the forefront in this area, here's what they were working on (they're re-doing it all over again now as a yet to be announced project): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14391523 Also, I'd encourage you to go through their Advanced Database class: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYutVzTeAds... Michael Stonebreaker, a Turing awardee, called for complete destruction…
Comment linking /2008/02/18/mike-stonebraker-calls-for-the-complete-destruction-of-the-old-dbms-order/
on “I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]”Submitted Three big myths about MapReduce as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThat's a big part of why restrictions on governmental collection and retention of data will never suffice. (The other big part is terrorism fears. Whether or not you or I agree with the plan -- as a practical political matter, a lot of surveillance will be done to try to identify in-country baddies.) http://www.dbms2.com/2010/07/04/fair-data-use/
Comment linking /2010/07/04/fair-data-use/
on “Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant”Submitted Facebook, Hadoop, and Hive as a story · 17 points
HN discussionBravo! I've been making the chilling effects argument for several years: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/07/08/privacy-data-use-chilling-ef... http://www.dbms2.com/2013/07/29/very-chilling-effects/ http://www.dbms2.com/2015/06/14/chilling-effects-revisited/ This article makes it with reasonable, appropriate breadth.
Comment linking /2015/06/14/chilling-effects-revisited/
on “Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant”Submitted What to do about “unstructured data” as a story · 16 points
HN discussionOf course, I've been writing about Mike for a while. :) http://www.softwarememories.com/2007/01/21/why-michael-stone... http://www.dbms2.com/category/michael-stonebraker/ Also http://www.monash.com/test-consult.html#stone :)
Comment linking /category/michael-stonebraker/
on “Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award”Submitted Toward a NoSQL taxonomy as a story · 15 points
HN discussionLet's assume that this kind of aggravation is necessary to defend against terrorism in an imperfect world, which in particular has imperfect systems and government employees. Is there anything EXCEPT terrorism we'd want to have cracked down on that closely?? http://www.dbms2.com/2013/07/29/what-our-legislators-should-... spells out some consequences of this reasoning.
Comment linking /2013/07/29/what-our-legislators-should-do-about-privacy-and-arent/
on “Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds”Submitted The Clustrix story as a story · 14 points
HN discussionIMO, it's very promising but still extremely immature. I still believe in Curt Monash's cardinal rule of RDBMS development: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-h...
Comment linking /2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-hadoop/
on “Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data”Submitted Traditional databases will eventually wind up in RAM as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGood move, will be good for the database for sure. I think of this article [0] every time someone says "why not just use <some hipster database written by 2 people over the course of a year>": Rule 1: Developing a good DBMS requires 5-7 years and tens of millions of dollars. That’s if things go extremely well. Rule 2: You aren’t an exception to Rule 1. 0: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-h.…
Comment linking /2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-hadoop/
on “Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB”Submitted Oracle as the New IBM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you look up columnar databases, you can find a whole host of research on how these things store data. Storing values column by column to do vector processing is pretty common, but I can't recall seeing one built for a GPU before. Kudos to the dev for diving in to implementing one, it's pretty neat stuff. Try finding research papers about MonetDB, Vertica/C-Store, or Vectorwise for some background. Or follow the l…
Comment linking /category/database-theory-practice/columnar-database-management/
on “Show HN: my database engine for GPU”Submitted Defining NoSQL in simple English as a story · 4 points
HN discussionScheier is right that information will be collected, and that the government will have access to it. That genie is out of the bottle. But there is still hope for reasonable and even strong controls on the USES of information. This is exactly the distinction I've been drawing for years, e.g. in http://www.dbms2.com/2012/03/01/where-the-privacy-discussion...
Comment linking /2012/03/01/where-the-privacy-discussion-needs-to-head/
on “The Internet is a surveillance state”Submitted The cardinal rules of DBMS development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm a little blown away by the total lack of technical understanding when it comes to MongoDB. This person is obviously very technical, so why would he have chosen MongoDB in the first place? It isn't like MongoDb's technical shortcomings are a secret. The description of how MongoDb does sharding and distributed queries should have immediately raised red flags to any who has even a modicum of CAP understanding. If i…
Comment linking /2011/04/04/the-mongodb-story/
on “A Year of MongoDB”Submitted Greenplum is being open sourced as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm beyond thrilled at this, because the chilling effects point hasn't been made nearly often enough. My version is at http://www.dbms2.com/2013/07/29/very-chilling-effects/ That it happens to be commercially advantageous for him to say that his business model is more virtuous than Google's or Facebook's doesn't bother me. In fact, I think there are fixes that could preserve their business models yet reduce the thre…
Comment linking /2013/07/29/very-chilling-effects/
on “Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy”Submitted The key to the privacy question -- chilling effects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI went through a similar analysis a few days ago: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/06/10/where-things-stand-in-us-gov... See also the comment thread, and the followup http://www.dbms2.com/2013/06/13/how-is-the-surveillance-data...
Comment linking /2013/06/13/how-is-the-surveillance-data-used/
on “It's not just metadata – the NSA is getting everything”Submitted A discussion on the feature set of DB2 Express-C as a story · 3 points
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