ZZyVOPinblog.zyvop.com·2d ago · 15 min readHow to Choose a Database in 2026: Eight Options Compared by Use CaseFacts checked as of October 2, 2026. No database is the best at everything. Each one makes trade-offs, and the right pick depends on what your application will actually do with its data. This post com00
CACiphemic academiainciphemicacademia.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 12 min readPostgreSQL vs. MongoDB: A 10x Speedup, a 4-Hour Outage, and the Real Question Behind "SQL vs. NoSQL" PostgreSQL vs. MongoDB: A 10x Speedup, a 4-Hour Outage, and the Real Question Behind "SQL vs. NoSQL" The team behind Shippable, a CI/CD platform running over 50 microservices, rebooted their MongoDB s00
ASAman Singhintherootaddress.hashnode.dev·Sep 26 · 9 min readSQL vs NoSQL: How Cloud Changed the Database DecisionThe interesting database question isn't “SQL or NoSQL?” It's “What kind of pain am I willing to own?” Because in the Cloud, you get SQL that scales across regions, NoSQL that supports transactions, se01I
V-VisuaLeaf - MongoDB Data Workspaceinvisualeaf.hashnode.dev·Sep 18 · 7 min readMongoDB Sharding: Manage a Sharded Cluster VisuallyMongoDB sharding helps a database handle growth by dividing a large collection into smaller blocks called chunks and distributing them across multiple shards.A shard key, such as customerId or region,00
AJAyush Jaininayushjjainn.hashnode.dev·Sep 15 · 38 min readModern Database Access: Prisma, Drizzle, and ORMs ExplainedMarvel universe, the MCU, ye toh sab jaante hain. And ek baat notice karo, it is not a single movie, it is a whole universe, dozens of films and characters all connected into one giant world. That "on00
YJYasir Jafriinyasir323.hashnode.dev·Sep 14 · 12 min readChoosing a Primary Key: A Tour of the IDs Real Systems Actually UseThe last article in this series was all about picking the right UUID version. This one pulls back a bit further, because UUIDs are just one item on a much longer menu, and depending on what you're bui00
CMCaleb Mintoumbainfreecodecamp.org·Aug 31 · 12 min readHow Firestore Structures Data and How to Perform CRUD Operations With ItMost apps eventually need to store and manipulate data. And if you're building with Firebase, that data lives in Firestore, Google's flexible, scalable NoSQL document database. But before you can conf00
V-VisuaLeaf - MongoDB Data Workspaceinvisualeaf.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 10 min readmongodump Tasks Automate and Schedule MongoDB BackupsRunning a MongoDB backup once is not difficult. With MongoDB Database Tools installed, the complete PowerShell command can be as short as this: & "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Tools\100\bin\mongodump.exe"00
SAShahbaz Ahmedinknowingnodejsexpress.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 16 min readModern Database AccessWhere does application data live after a user closes the app? Close a shopping app after adding three items to a cart, and reopen it a week later, the cart is still there. Log into a social media app 00
DSDoogal Simpsonindoogal.dev·Aug 26 · 5 min readHow YouTube Scales Watch History Using BigtableTL;DR: YouTube scales watch history for billions of users using Google Bigtable. Instead of running expensive SQL query sorts on the fly, they design a massive, sorted key-value store where the row ke00