Databases
This page has some bookmarks about databases.
One day I would like to see a graph database that I could use as the main data store as confidently as PostgreSQL or SQLite. I don’t think graph databases are there yet, but a few could reach that point.
- “Survey of Graph Database Models”, Renzo Angles, Claudio Gutierrez2008
- “Do We Need Specialized Graph Databases? Benchmarking Real-Time Social Networking Applications”, Anil Pacaci, Alice Zhou, Jimmy Lin, M. Tamer Özsu2017
- “CODASYL Data-Base Management Systems”, Robert W. Taylor, Randall L. Frank1976
- “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”, E. F. Codd1970
- “Against SQL”, Jamie Brandon2021. Summary: the relational model is great; SQL is verbose, fragile, and closed to interaction with other systems. It makes it difficult to factor out reusable patterns. “The entire database industry is hauling a massive SQL-shaped parachute behind them. This complexity creates a drag on everything downstream.”
- “How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic”, Brandur2017
- “Let’s Build a Simple Database”, Connor Stack
- Use The Index, Luke! A Guide to Database Performance for Developers, Markus Winand
Interesting database engines. Open source unless noted otherwise.
- Dgraph. Distributed.
- HyperGraphDB
- LemonGraph. Embedded (Python). Made by the NSA.
- Nebula Graph. Distributed.
- RedisGraph. Fast due to the use of GraphBLAS. Shared-source license. EOL announced in 2023.
- FoundationDB. Distributed. Has a document and a record layer.