Not really disagreeing with your sentiment, but he laid it out nicely in the "Defining the Hot Path" section. That is honestly the most valuable lesson a newer programmer could take away from this gist.
HumanGeo creates innovative geospatially oriented products and solutions for government and commercial clients. We usually get to work on blank slates to build large scale databases and applications. We also like to brew beer and play Mario Kart.
HumanGeo creates innovative geospatially oriented products and solutions for government and commercial clients. We usually get to work on blank slates to build large scale databases and applications. We also like to brew beer and play Mario Kart.
I did enjoy Slackware as a learning experience all those years ago, but nowadays I like to spend more time building things and less time futzing with the OS.
Correct, data is a plural. OP either doesn't know that or is making a more nuanced complaint about stodgy old style guides that used Latin to decide things like this.
Both of these positions on the subject are needlessly binary. I often find it the case that, even though I erect careful boundaries between work and non-work, when I leave a problem on my desk, I will continue to ruminate about a solution throughout the weekend, say. Similarly, I will Strategically avoid email when I'm recharging. I don't think it's so easy to boil down as black and white.
But to call that a Postgres variant seems to suggest that they have way more in common than they really do. The trade offs that vertical databases are making are kind of alien for someone who is used to using Postgres.
It's not a Postgres variant at all. Postgres is emulated as an interface to the columnar ParAccel database underneath. ParAccel does neat things (compiles your SQL into a program that it runs to answer the question, for instance) and really rips if you can order your data on good keys up front (and then use those keys in your query, of course).
Source: I helped build a very high speed network data analytical tool on top of ParAccel (before it was bought by Amazon and rolled into redshift).
This. I love Chrome, but their target market is using Windows, and asking them to click "Yes" to upgrade Chrome (or leaving this question up to the administrator) is not a barrier worth circumventing.