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mattlord

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About mattlord

Engineering @ PlanetScale. Vitess maintainer.

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    Comment #47091409

    It's open source. If you really want to know these things, I would encourage you to look at the code and read the documentation. As noted in the blog post, reverse vreplication is …

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    Comment #47091349

    So you don't understand how something works. That's fine. But to then say the article and/or tech are BS is... a choice. This work has been and is being used by some of the largest…

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    Comment #47091290

    It's open source. If you want to understand exactly how, you certainly can! :-) https://github.com/vitessio/vitess https://vitess.io/docs/reference/vreplication/ https://vitess.io/…

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    Comment #47081716

    It's open source. You can get as many details as you like :) https://github.com/vitessio/vitess https://vitess.io/docs/reference/vreplication/ https://vitess.io/docs/reference/feat…

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    Comment #47080635

    You are correct about resuming. If you do an initial VDiff and then resume that same VDiff say 1 month later it would only diff rows with a higher PK value. But there's also nothin…

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    Comment #47076196

    That particular cluster has grown significantly since the post was written, and yes there are now quite a few others that are challenging it for the "largest" claim. :-) These larg…

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    Comment #47075820

    Blog post author here. I'm happy to answer any related questions you may have.

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    Comment #32683171

    > A relational database without relations is an oxymoron. OK. You're the only one talking to this straw man though. :-) Every Vitess user that I'm aware of has a pretty typical 2NF…

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    Comment #32682696

    > If I were to do it in PostgreSQL 14 natively without any other third party plugins, I can get help of Table Partitioning (say root server) + Tables on Foreign Servers (say leaf s…

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    Comment #32682501

    The Expensify test was targeted at demonstrating the upper limits of SQLite itself. The hardware used: > 1TB of DDR4 RAM > 3TB of NVME SSD storage > 192 physical 2.7GHz cores (384 …

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    Comment #31524061

    It's fairly difficult to find actual details on ACUs and how it all works, the best I found after spending significant time looking was things like: https://www.jeremydaly.com/auro…

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    Comment #31523701

    I doubt that anyone would claim their billing metrics are perfect. If you find some specific workload that's actually cheaper on another serverless database offering then we'd love…

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    Comment #31522863

    Installing the time zone tables on a single instance is certainly not hard: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/time-zone-support.ht... The trickier part is orchestrating the o…

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    Comment #31521922

    This is at least the second time you've made this exact same comment on an article. So in an attempt to respond to what I will assume are arguments made in good faith... A database…

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    Comment #13161610

    You can see the changelog here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-17.... The new product page here: http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/high_availabilit…

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