My boss—a biologist—told me to buy Oracle. Me: What is Oracle, exactly? Boss: It’s a database. Me: Why do we want it? Boss: We have data. We have to put it in a database. Me: I don’t think so. Boss: Our data is important. Don’t argue, just go buy it. It should cost $10,000. 1/2
out of curiosity, what was your eventual data management solution? in 2018 I'd toss it all in a PostgreSQL instance for $0/mo (excluding hardware/hosting costs) and call it a day. In 1994 that wasn't an option though.
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Flat files. Was all we needed at the time. [Thought I’d replied to this before, but I can’t find my tweet]
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thanks for the reply! suspect as much. how did you manage indexing? I have this feeling that any attempt to build out a flatfile store ends up building at least half an RDBMS by the time you're finished anyway.
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There really wasn’t much data. I can’t remember details, but the whole thing was probably two pages of code.
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Depending on the amount of data a json file is all you need.
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> Depending on the amount of data you don't say
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