Picking a database should be simple (Friends)

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 – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!