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Haven’t used them in production because their license doesn’t allow operating as a service. I have used an alternative.
Yeah I’d be glad to talk about it. Was part of a team that was asked to design a whistleblowing software platform for large corporate and government customers. The rest of the stack was RDS Postgres but this whistleblowing app had super different requirements. We would need to run in basically every region and also not exclusively in AWS. After trying some different options it became clear that Cockroach was the best…
Yeah I’d be glad to talk about it. Was part of a team that was asked to design a whistleblowing software platform for large corporate and government customers. The rest of the stack was RDS Postgres but this whistleblowing app had super different requirements. We would need to run in basically every region and also not exclusively in AWS. After trying some different options it became clear that Cockroach was the best…
That doesn't sound like an app that's going to have to process a lot of data at all.
Is it the fact you can get clusters synched really well across regions? And is that really a problem for low transaction apps today?
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I don't really see how this competes with cockroach. Cockroach is meant to be sql compatible, whilst Aerospike is nosql. Is that why you commented under a different username, because you are affectively spreading misinformation?
> I don't really see how this competes with cockroach. I never said it did. > Is that why you commented under a different username, because you are affectively spreading misinformation? No, asshole. Because it's a small world, and it's not exactly the smartest thing to do to.... never mind. Obviously you're gonna assume ill intent regardless of what I say. > "whilst Aerospike is nosql" You obviously have no idea what…
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> Same birdie told me Aerospike has customers who replaced CockroachDB, when they found out it has trouble scaling past a point. Elaborate?
Nah, I'd rather be vague. ;-) The issue, I'm guessing, was that CockroachDB couldn't maintain the required latency bounds and availability past a certain point for the customer. Those are always where Aerospike wins (latency, availability, while scaling). milliseconds vs microseconds. The limiting factor isn't how many operations the platform can handle, it's how many operations/transactions you can generate before t…
(note the username!) Check out Aerospike. It's the most robust and truly "zero effort scale" real time data platform I've ever seen. Properly configured and used, it whups everything in terms of TPS and performance/machine aka TCO. By a huge, huge, factor. Downside is ... everything else. :/ Less polished developer experience, docs, &c. There are so many huge customers, but very few who are talking about it. Requires…
I don't really see how this competes with cockroach. Cockroach is meant to be sql compatible, whilst Aerospike is nosql. Is that why you commented under a different username, because you are affectively spreading misinformation?
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Nah, I'd rather be vague. ;-) The issue, I'm guessing, was that CockroachDB couldn't maintain the required latency bounds and availability past a certain point for the customer. Those are always where Aerospike wins (latency, availability, while scaling). milliseconds vs microseconds. The limiting factor isn't how many operations the platform can handle, it's how many operations/transactions you can generate before t…
Wow, Schwab runs an AGPL database?! Guessing they've a commercial license.
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Wow, Schwab runs an AGPL database?! Guessing they've a commercial license.
Doesn't it seem equally likely they haven't made any changes to the codebase? Or have simply contributed them to the project?
Haven’t used them in production because their license doesn’t allow operating as a service. I have used an alternative.
What does that mean? What service do you have that is disallowed? We are evaluating it and are finding the license page confusing. Yugabyte seems friendlier but it seems even less talked about.