Picking a database should be simple (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options.

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Featuring:

• Ben Johnson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Jepsen - Consistency Models
• LiteFS
• litestream
• rqlite
• BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #170)

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:38)

https://sentry.io/

3. Ben Depends (00:03:55)

4. Why databases (00:05:05)

5. Just use Postgres? (00:06:14)

6. OO database dreams (00:09:08)

7. Where do you put stuff? (00:10:33)

8. Sponsor: 1Password (00:15:03)

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9. Ben's db experience (00:18:09)

10. Jerod tries MongoDB (00:19:03)

11. Materialized views (00:21:19)

12. Graph databases (00:21:36)

13. Low-level differences (00:22:49)

14. BoltDB (00:24:29)

15. Thoughts on Redis (00:26:01)

16. Select for update (00:27:52)

17. How to learn (00:28:19)

18. Ben likes simplicity (00:31:15)

19. Reasonable data loss (00:31:58)

20. Not building for Amazon (00:34:27)

21. Sponsor: Intel Innovation 2024 (00:35:24)

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22. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity (00:37:26)

23. SQLite's simplicity (00:40:01)

24. SQLite drawbacks (00:41:33)

25. SQLite as web backend (00:43:36)

26. The SPA/MPA web dev pendulum (00:44:50)

27. LiteFS for horizontal scale (00:46:22)

28. Ben on burnout (00:48:04)

29. The why behind LiteFS (00:50:28)

30. Vector databases (00:53:12)

31. Multi-database solutions (00:55:06)

32. How to make software simple (00:58:34)

33. Jamis Buck on API design (01:00:25)

34. We're still here (01:01:22)

35. Bye, friends (01:03:00)

36. Coming up next (01:03:13)