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That's just my age showing, I guess. For me, all 2.5D shooters are DOOMlikes. I was actually first thinking about calling it a Quake-like since IMHO that is much more well known fo…

Love that you liked it! Your project was the inspiration and showed me the insanity was actually feasible :D

Yea, I actually thought of the viability of SQL for games while working on DOOMQL. It's just so easy to express a lot of game logic in SQL queries. As an avid OSRS player I was thi…

If you want to take a look at the source code, here's the repo! https://github.com/cedardb/DOOMQL

The version is just an atomic integer assigned to that btree node which is monotonically increasing. Each writer increases the version when it releases the lock IF it has modified …

Tell me about it... Was just too expensive compared to flash. But the tech was definitely awesome and I hope it'll come back in one way or another. When designing CedarDB, we recen…

> Ultimately, a reliable non-volatile write cache, sized for your workload is the answer. Author here, I agree! It's quite sad that we need such an involved solution to offset the …

Yes, the way it is currently implemented, the build side has to fit into RAM. There is no inherent reason we couldn't also spool to disk, but we haven't implemented that yet.

Depends on your use case. Redis is a key-value store that is optimized for simpler workloads and is designed as a caching layer. Umbra, on the other hand, is a full fledged, ACID c…

Yes, we do use io_uring

all VLDB papers are also completely open access. You can find e.g. last year's papers here: http://vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/15 .