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ah, so something like... if the primary ordered transaction 3 < transaction 1, but transaction 2 observes only transaction 1 on the read-only secondary potentially because the seco…

"I think what's going on here is that a read-only transaction against a secondary can observe some transaction T, but also miss transactions which must have logically executed befo…

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I think there's some confusion at what distributed databases like Spanner, Cockroach, etc do: - A given row of data is configured to have N replicas, e.g. 3, 5, etc, but N doesn't …

FDIC only insures up to $250K

Zig. https://ziglearn.org/chapter-4/

> Is it really a problem to bubble up that error (and kill the database server) if you can just bring up a new database server with a clean cache (potentially even on the same comp…

> Is it necessary to fully replicate the persistent store onto the striped SSD array? I admire such a simple solution, but I wonder if something like an LRU cache would achieve sim…

Scylla (and Cassandra) provides cluster-level replication. Even with only local NVMes, a single node failure with loss of data would be tolerated. But relying on "ephemeral local S…

That's good observation. We've spent a lot of time on our control plane which handles the various RAID1 failure modes, e.g. when a RAID1 degrades due to failed local SSD, we force …

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Benchmark ran on each DB’s default isolation mode which are different: serializable for Cockroach and snapshot for YugaByte. https://twitter.com/karthikr/status/1174031604106153984…

I hope Regulator has been decommissioned ;)

Philosophically, does the hyper.sh approach reflect Exokernel's vision? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel

Mailbox was acquired by Dropbox some time ago.

somebody tell the governor to read this: "Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting". Aviel Rubin. http://amzn.com/0767922107

happy for this move. i was actually starting to envy microsoft's metro design aesthetic and loathe the changes that came in every new os x release.