Nextcloud asked in a poll at https://mastodon.social/@nextcloud@mastodon.xyz/115095096413238457 what database its users are running. Interestingly one fifth replied they don’t know. Should people know better where their data is stored, or is it a good thing everything is running so smoothly people don’t need to know what their software stack is built upon?
“18% of car owners don’t know their brake fluid DOT rating.”
Whatever the docker compose file that I found had
The more shocking is that one guy who KNOWS it’s sqlite, but ain’t afraid to admit it!
That is actually good news. Means that people more likely to be “normies” are adopting an alternative solution.
I can confirm I’m a newer user (not a normie) to Nextcloud and I don’t know or really care what it uses because it works so I haven’t had to learn what it is or how to debug it.
I have five users, max, and barely any files. I don’t know which one Nextcloud AIO uses and I don’t care. There’s no wrong answer for such a small deployment. It uses whatever database Nextcloud felt was sensible as the default. They know more about picking the right tool for their requirements than I do.
If I’m building something for myself, then I care.
Theres heaps of hosted nextcloud services. Those users wouldn’t know.
Nextcloud is pushed as an easy to use docker setup these days, heck most people I know who “use” it don’t do much with it at all so what database it is using is gonna be way back in their list of priorities…
Plus the users outweigh the admins surely (as in those that just install then forget)Where’s the option for “what’s a database?”
Agree - I’m sharing files, not databases…
I’m not even sharing files, I’m sharing mp3’s and some zips. Duh.
I mean… I set it up many many years ago… Without looking it up I can also just guess.
What’s a computer ?
my computer is really slow. where can i download more rams?
Enable hugepage allocation, it will deduplicate memory chunks and save you lotsaram Especially good with an hypervisor desktop
It’s awesome that you don’t have to remember what software you’re using underneath. I looked into it before I installed it, but I’d have to check which one I went with. I also have no idea what graphics card I’m using, which headset I’m using, what brand of eyeglass cleaner I’m using etc. I looked into it at the time, made a choice and promptly forgot about why and filled my brain with other things.
If I remembered which database I was running it means that I’d have enough problems with it that I’d look at it a lot.
. >18% of people running next cloud are not backing it up.
This is a fallacious. If you have a very small set of users, what exact data is in the database that you would be upset at losing? Maybe your contacts and your calendar. Which you could back up manually, which might actually be simpler than backing up the database.
I’m sorry, but writing down the data from your organizational program and re-entering it all from scratch is NOT a backup solution.
If you have such scant data to do that, you didn’t need to have nextcould installed in the first place.
Where are you getting that from? The fastest and easiest way to back up any server is a full filesystem backup, especially if you’re using something like zfs or btrfs.
I can’t decide if you don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re just trying to troll me.
Neither, I’m trying to explain that you don’t need to know the implementation details of the software running on your server to backup the entire thing.
TIL that NextCloud can use an external database.
Are you still using sqlite?
Aren’t you? WAL mode has made SQLite better than the alternatives at this point.
East or West, SQLite is the best.
I think that’s really beautiful.
