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by zikohh on 8/29/23, 9:51 PM with 16 comments

• by mknapper1 on 8/29/23, 11:16 PM

  This is cool! I’m also a big fan of https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

• by JohnMakin on 8/29/23, 10:51 PM

  This impressed me - it contains the DB of the tiny (10 person) startup I worked for that failed ~2019. We had almost no customers, wonder where it picked that up?

• by primitivesuave on 8/29/23, 11:36 PM

  This is especially impressive because of how good the search is. I searched "mongo" and got all DBs that support Mongo (i.e. including AWS DocumentDB). Overall it seems like search, filters, and suggestions have a better implementation here than most ecommerce applications have for product search.

• by whalesalad on 8/29/23, 11:50 PM

  This is pretty neat.

  I bought protobase.org (intending to mean a database of prototypes - in hindsight maybe archebase.org is better lol) to build a site like this that the community could curate and contribute to (wiki style). The goal being that you can look up any piece of the stack (Rails, DynamoDB, Istio, jquery, coffeescript, Laravel, Cassandra, you name it) and get a quick idea of what it is, how it fits into its' own space, how it compares to other tools or competitors, pros cons etc.

  Ideally more than just tools - but architecture patterns too. Like, "Event Sourcing" has a page with recipes and cookbooks on various ways to tackle the problem, stacks that could be used, pro's and con's (eventual consistency vs immediate blah blah)

  Wondering if something like that would even be possible (the community curated aspect) or if it would just degrade into a never ending turf war.

• by dang on 8/30/23, 12:58 AM

  Related:

  Database of Databases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494403 - Sept 2020 (61 comments)

• by cmrdporcupine on 8/29/23, 11:11 PM

  RelationalAI should be categorized as using B-Epsilon-Trees. Doesn't come up for that in search.

  And data model should just be relational. Yes, it's marketed somewhat as a "graph" db, but its hook is modelling graphs as binary relations and supporting efficient recursive joins to solve graph problems using their (rather elegant) relational language.

  (Briefly worked there. Smart folks.)

• by snide on 8/29/23, 11:04 PM

  In case anyone else was checking.

  Noticed some missing ones, including https://xata.io (I work there). Didn't see a way to add it (looks like a simple Django app so probably manually adding it into the admin).

  Guess you have to contact the author directly or make a Github Issue.

• by nickpeterson on 8/29/23, 11:36 PM

  But what database does the database of databases use?