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Allison Parrish @aparrish

what's the scrappy open source alternative nosql db that actually needs users/support/tutorials now that mongodb has gone IPO? cnbc.com/2017/10/19/mongodb-md (to be clear, I like mongodb and have friends that work there and would continue to suggest it to clients, but I'd rather spend my own time supporting smaller, more radical, less cash-rich projects)

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@aparrish I didn't even know that MongoDB had taken that step 😕 Would you also want a document database like mongo? Or any nosql database?

@ReganKoopmans doesn't have to be a document database specifically!

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@kd0bpv I know about mariadb. looking for nosql-ish solutions, which have particular affordances that make them easier for some projects

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@aparrish

Apart from CouchDB I would check out arangodb.com/ and maybe cockroachlabs.com/ (though the latter is SQL based)

@pnathan just looked it up and wow I didn't know that postgres would even do json-internal indexes. nice

@aparrish modern pg is splendid and glorious.

I politely melt down at people when they use other things unless they can present actual reasons their use case won't work for a well tuned pg install

@aparrish
Orientdb - privately held, but Java
ArangoDB - C++ but VC-backed (no IPO yet)
Dgraph - new, interesting, lacks sufficient docs
Tidb - NoSql but speaks MySql wire protocol so you can use most mysql/maria clients and get NoSql too
Redis - you probably know about aleeady

Not really scrappy things, there's scrappier ones, but thesenwork pretty well already

@aparrish I really like LMDB. No fancy sharding or query lang. But if you want a serverless, insanely fast key-val store, it works really nicely. (and has good Python bindings)

Some friends are into Pouchdb (pouchdb.com/) lately.