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   prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:17:51 JST prettygood
   Any time some package depends on MongoDB this image comes to mind.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:21:10 JST prettygood

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     @pwm this is the part where I would call you a slur but I'm taking the high road and inviting you to nosql my saggy ballsack
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     pwm (pwm@dsmc.space)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:21:11 JST pwm

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     @prettygood sql is OLD and BAD and MongoDB and NoSQL is GOOD and NEW you old coot
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:23:34 JST prettygood

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     @pwm sure is fun watching this image sloading on your pencil sized internet connection zoomzoom, here's a Linode referral code, get yourself a real computer.
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     pwm (pwm@dsmc.space)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:23:35 JST pwm

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:23:40 JST prettygood

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     • pwm
     @roland @pwm your feed is just full of ballsacks tonight eh?
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     roland (roland@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:23:41 JST roland

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     @prettygood @pwm scrotox but for databases
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     roland (roland@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:24:10 JST roland

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     @prettygood @pwm I blame everyone but me
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     pwm (pwm@dsmc.space)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:24:43 JST pwm

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     @prettygood calm your tiddies it's satellite interwebs. That image went to space
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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:47:46 JST Wolf480pl

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     @pwm @prettygood
     what? NoSQL? That's so 2012. It's 2025, you should be using...
     *looks into notes* not web 2.0... serverless... blockchain, VR, blockchain again... kubernets, web 3
     *looks up*
     Ah, yes. AI
     That's what's all the rage today, so figure out how to make that the shape of database.

     1/

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 08:52:23 JST Wolf480pl

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     @pwm @prettygood
     You could try a vector database, heard those are used for AI. Oh, your data is not vectors? You'd better get yourself an embedding.

     Or maybe SQL but instead of indexes, AI guesses which pages to fetch from disk?
     AI could also make query plans.
     And check for string similarity, instead of this cumbersome `LIKE`
     Or you know what, feed the whole WHERE clause to AI have it tell which rows match the conditions.

     The database market could use some disruption, right?

     /s

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 09:50:45 JST prettygood

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     @newt ten bucks says it was at least 90% as fast as using real mongodb
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 09:50:46 JST :suya:

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     @prettygood I was on IRC and this dude told me how his company had a table in a Postgres database with three fields. id, parent_id, jsonb. The table name was mongodb.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 09:53:07 JST prettygood

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     @newt pg stronk
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     :suya: (newt@stereophonic.space)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 09:53:08 JST :suya:

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     @prettygood iirc Postgres outperformed it in many tests.
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     hazlin (hazlin@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 10:01:33 JST hazlin

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     @newt @prettygood
     It has been some time since I looked at it, but when last I checked, no-sql on postgres was much faster than mongo
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     Eragon (eragon@pl.eragon.re)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:10:43 JST Eragon

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     @prettygood Why do you have JAVA AND Ruby ?!

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     vascorsd (vascorsd@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:11:21 JST vascorsd

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     @eragon @prettygood jruby shaking nervously...

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     Frawst (frawst@fedi.fraw.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:12:26 JST Frawst

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer "we built this erlang project exclusively to sacrifice to the amazon gods so they may bless our mongodb"

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     Breizh (breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:12:31 JST Breizh

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     @eragon @prettygood You’re asking too much questions here. :D

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:14:26 JST prettygood

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     • Reid :ablobcatattention:
     @Reiddragon I've never worked directly with it either, only installed as a package as a dependency for something. Its a JSON-like document store kind of database, "nosql" was how people used to call it, I think. Anyway, I don't like it because it takes forever to compile and the compatibility / updates between versions tends to be a shitshow.
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     Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:14:27 JST Reid :ablobcatattention:

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     @prettygood can I please get a tl;dr of what mongodb is, why stuff depends on it, and why stuff shouldn't use it? (I've mongodb brought up plenty of times but never worked with it)
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:15:58 JST prettygood

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     @swee if I had a dollar for every sqlite database that destroyed itself just sitting on disk, I could buy lunch. Postgres forever.
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     Nova Cat (swee@mastodon.swee.codes)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:15:59 JST Nova Cat

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     @prettygood SQLite ftw

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     Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:18:10 JST Reid :ablobcatattention:

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     @prettygood sounds like the average Enterprise-grade Scalable Software Solution to Grow your Business™
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     vestige (vestige@sleepyhe.ad)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:41:13 JST vestige

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     MongoDB is web scale.

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 00:41:13 JST prettygood

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     @vestige I wwebsite as on the internet
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     Pianosaurus 🕴 (pianosaurus@c.im)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 01:22:41 JST Pianosaurus 🕴

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     @prettygood @Reiddragon I have used it quite a bit, I'm sad to say. There are no good usecases.

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     Pianosaurus 🕴 (pianosaurus@c.im)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 01:24:49 JST Pianosaurus 🕴

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     @pwm @prettygood I read that as "The future is now old, man." ...and was very cofused.

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     tetchy af (af@dataare.cool)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 01:31:54 JST tetchy af

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     @prettygood @skylar I see this shit and always immediately think to that blog post “The problem with Postgres is it’s jus too good.”

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     Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 01:48:56 JST Reid :ablobcatattention:

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     @pianosaurus @prettygood the more I hear about it, the more it seems like exactly the kinda software that the upper management in a corporation who have no tech literacy would pick and force upon the entire company
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     Nulhomme (nulhomme@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:12:33 JST Nulhomme

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     @prettygood at university for a project we had a professional dev that was teaching some class about web dev and he made us all use mangodb for it because he was a big fan of it, i don't think we ever managed to have to thing reliably working and it all sounded so dumb to me to use that because we just had some other teacher show us how to use mariadb and it was much easier to have it running. I still don't know to this day if it because he was bad at teaching mangodb or if it just suck

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:13:18 JST prettygood

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     @Nulhomme I've never used it in my dev work so I can't comment on that side of it but judging from the package status in Gentoo I can tell the code base is a well-maintained stable and sane one.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:34:26 JST prettygood

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     @phnt @swee oddly enough my desktop's signal sqlite DB is 14GB and cruising along happily. Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution, wallabag, freshrss, a few others, all went down in flames at some point, sometimes multiple times.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:34:27 JST Phantasm

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     @prettygood @swee I could probably buy a lunch just out of the many times that Signal's sqlite DB imploded on my computer. Happens like at least once a month.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:36:21 JST Phantasm

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     @prettygood @swee Are you using a full DE? Because mine always implodes because Signal gets confused what secrets store its supposed to use for decrypting the DB and once it fails once at that, 90% it cannot be recovered.
     
     Yes, I literally have the secrets store hard-coded in my keyboard shortcut, but it still randomly decides to use something else.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:36:49 JST prettygood

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     @phnt @swee yes, either XFCE for many years, or KDE for the past several months. So either with gnome-keyring or kwallet6
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:54:33 JST Phantasm

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     @prettygood @swee They are probably doing more than running /usr/lib/pam_kwallet_init on startup, so it would make sense. But kwallet always worked when Signal imploded.
     
     Also death to any application that requires gnome-keyring or kwallet to store login credentials. Looking at you Nextcloud.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 03:55:07 JST prettygood

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     @phnt @swee I need to try to get Things™ to talk to keepassxc as a secret service and maybe I can circle the wagons on that
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     Nova Cat (swee@mastodon.swee.codes)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 04:53:08 JST Nova Cat

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     @prettygood that's crazy, I use small sqlite databases and they haven't broke, but yeah I'd try PostgreSQL if I ever plan to store large data in a db

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 10:11:41 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @wezm @prettygood discount happy tree friends
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     Wesley Moore (wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 10:11:43 JST Wesley Moore

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     @prettygood For me it's this gem from 15 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs #MongoDB

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     Nova Cat (swee@mastodon.swee.codes)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 11:35:56 JST Nova Cat

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     @prettygood I don't get what's up with noSQL... SQL is great for data storage, why kill it? (by promoting nosql)

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 11:36:28 JST prettygood

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     @swee new thing good old thing bad don't you understand
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     pwm (pwm@dsmc.space)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 11:37:51 JST pwm

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     @prettygood @swee like pg, he is old and therefore bad
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 11:38:39 JST prettygood

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     @pwm @swee I'm just saying my postgres server has outlived at least a half-dozen sqlite setups, upgrade from v9 to v16 along the way, no bumps on that road. Sometimes the best measure of a horse is the long parts of the road.
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     Nova Cat (swee@mastodon.swee.codes)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 11:58:25 JST Nova Cat

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     @prettygood @pwm that's nice - do you have any experience with MySQL/MariaDB's quality? I've also seen it be popular especially for PHP.

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 11:59:44 JST prettygood

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     @swee @pwm yeah I still run some mysql databases at work. There's nothing wrong with it at all, I have nothing bad to say about it. I just prefer postgres personally. Both are absolutely solid choices.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 19:53:53 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @prettygood There's still stuff that depends on MongoDB?
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 21:33:10 JST prettygood

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     @lanodan unifi...
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     gynoid trucy 🏳️‍⚧️ (trucy@girlcock.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 21:33:20 JST gynoid trucy 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @prettygood mongodb just concatenates data in a file and then greps it

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 21:35:15 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @prettygood Alpine router stays winning :P
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 21:39:09 JST waifu

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer who even uses mongodb

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 17:47:33 JST pistolero

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     overbackindex.png
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 21:12:00 JST Phantasm

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     @prettygood @swee Speaking of, this time it was recoverable.
     image.png
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