--- title: Best Big Data posts of 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Big Data posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/big-data/best-of/2021 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/big-data/best-of/2021 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Big Data posts of 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Big Data posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Big Data — 2021 1. 1 [](/posts/the-most-popular-languages-on-reddit-after-analyzing-1m-comments-qbdd-2gag "The Most Popular Languages on Reddit after Analyzing ~1M Comments") Article Towards Data Science · 5y The Most Popular Languages on Reddit after Analyzing \~1M Comments The most popular language on Reddit (other than English) will surprise you. To build this chart I analyzed almost a million Reddit comments with Snowflake and a Java UDTF (in less than 2 minutes) The most popular languages on Reddit, after analyzing 1M comments: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Dutch. 28 4 2. 2 [](/posts/an-introduction-to-big-data-architectures-shtyzq46z "An Introduction to Big Data Architectures") Article Quastor Daily · 5y An Introduction to Big Data Architectures This week we’re talking about the different types of workloads a big data architecture has to solve for. We also have a solution to our last coding interview question, plus a new question from Facebook. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on How Slack created a ReactJS analytics logging library Robert Morris’ lectures on distributed systems. 20 3 3. 3 [](/posts/databases-in-2021-a-year-in-review-w67a-565g "Databases in 2021: A Year in Review") Article Hacker News · 5y Databases in 2021: A Year in Review It was a wild year for the database industry, with newcomers overtaking the old guard and vendors fighting over benchmark numbers. We also had to say goodbye to some of our database friends through acquisitions, bankruptcies, or retractions. Here are some of the highlights and a few of my thoughts on what they might mean for the field of databases. 11 1 [See all Big Data archives](/tags/big-data/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/big-data/best-of/2021#page","url":"https://daily.dev/tags/big-data/best-of/2021","name":"Best Big Data Posts of 2021","description":"The most upvoted Big Data posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/big-data/best-of/2021#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-popular-languages-on-reddit-after-analyzing-1m-comments-qbdd-2gag","name":"The Most Popular Languages on Reddit after Analyzing ~1M Comments"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/an-introduction-to-big-data-architectures-shtyzq46z","name":"An Introduction to Big Data Architectures"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/databases-in-2021-a-year-in-review-w67a-565g","name":"Databases in 2021: A Year in Review"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tags","item":"https://daily.dev/tags"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Big Data","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/big-data"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/big-data/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"2021"}]}]} ```