HACKER Q&A
📣 tim_sw

Which OSS systems have been rock solid to run in prod?


I’ll start: Redis and Postgres just work in my experience and perform fairly well under load.

By contrast - have had painful experiences with Zookeeper and HBase.

Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and Kafka are somewhere in the middle.

Curious about RedPanda, DragonflyDB, ScyllaDB, Materialize, and other newer systems.

  👤 aynyc Accepted Answer ✓
I used sqlite3 in production as part of ETL pipeline, works perfectly fine for years even as the volume scaled up.
👤 techn00
Discord seems to be satisfied with ScyllaDB: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-mes...
👤 nicbou
Nginx is a pain in the butt to configure properly, but it's rock solid.
👤 idontwantthis
Other than Oracle or MSSql, what would anyone consider using that is not open source?