[mble_]

Author here.

Thanks for sharing! My choices are pretty coloured by personal experience, and I didn't want to re-tread anything from the book (Redis/Valkey, Neo4j etc) other than Postgres - mostly due to Postgres changing _a lot_ over the years.

I had considered an OSS Dynamo-like (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, kinda), or a Calvin-like (FaunaDB), but went with FoundationDB instead because to me, that was much more interesting.

After a decade of running DBaaS at massive scale, I'm also pretty biased towards easy-to-run.

[leeoniya]

was hoping to see https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb on the list

maybe 2026, or some bonus content for 2025 :)

https://www.greptime.com/blogs/2024-09-09-report-summary

[biggestlou]

As a co-author of the book of the same name, I’m disappointed that you didn’t see fit to provide any kind of attribution

[mble_]

It was not intentional. I've corrected this oversight, and attribution is now provided - my apologies.

[timbotron]

I'm curious why you said you don't find MongoDB interesting?

[mble_]

I lived through the MongoDB hype cycle.

For document databases, I'm more interested in things like PoloDB and SurrealDB.

[timbotron]

I agree mongo is overhyped and attracts a lot of web newbies who only know javascript and don't want to think through schemas, although one interesting newer feature of mongo is time series collections -- unfortunately they are a bit buggy but they're getting better seem like a legitimate non-relational use case.

[aravindputrevu]

Ex-Surrealer here. Thanks for listing us. Never thought someone on HN would cite us esp when it comes to MongoDB.