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Luis from Fauna here - confirming that we are working with partners like Grafbase, who can provide a fully featured GraphQL experience for use with Fauna. We are working with the G…

Sometimes the value is not in having a zillion configuration options with these providers but, instead, having a more accessible service that doesn't require a PhD. And some of the…

...but for distributed databases specifically, you can use a different algorithm like Calvin[0] or Fauna[1] that do not require external atomic clocks… but the CS point and the wea…

I can attest to that statement: comparing Spanner and CockroachDB is difficult. Spanner and Fauna (where I work) are more comparable (Fauna is based on Calvin, see [0]) since they …

If you are serious about transactionality, data consistency, and isolation levels, this sounds different from how you want to go. Both Firestore and Realm have shortcomings here. F…

As it turns out, other mature options offer this temporality out of the box. In Fauna (disclaimer: I work there) offers temporality out of the box so you can do a search on a recor…

both good points, including the devs having different abilities and using a ready-made scalable solution. We're living in the world of having something working that you can test in…

Fauna can do multi-region HA, across clouds, serverless, with transparent sharding and replication. We get plenty of people struggling with not being able to do low-latency, perfor…

This is a great list - adding two more that cover Calvin (vs Spanner, Cassandra, Dynamo etc.): http://dslam.cs.umd.edu/calvin/ https://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/calvin-sigmod12.…

Yeah I think (heard anecdotally) both google/YouTube and Facebook (and many others) started with MySQL. Spanner for distributed writes has inspired most implementations although Go…

My main takeaway from this article: as popular as Postgres and MySQL are, and understanding the legacy systems built for them, it will always require deep expertise and "black magi…

Excellent point. Many discussions here do not emphasize transactional guarantees enough, and most developers writing front-ends should not have to worry about programming to addres…

Good article, although the title might be a bit too click-bate-y... there's plenty of research and available services that reliably can have low-latency, distributed writes at the …

This sounds like an interesting hybrid implementation, and I understand its motivation. However, if distributed writes at low latency with the highest consistency guarantees are es…

There's definitely interest in both, but oftentimes for what I would argue are the wrong reasons. MySQL and PostgreSQL scale to a point but with complexity and data isolation limit…

A lot of things have improved in distributed databases as of late. There are distributed databases today (my co. provides one) that can have strict serializability (the highest dat…

Understanding how serverless databases are architected, specifically databases like Fauna that leave the rigidity of traditional RDBMS behind without compromising or disclaiming co…