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Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git

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Re: Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git

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Post by the_duke »

aboodman wrote: post #2

Hi all. I'm one of the creators of Noms. Happy to answer any questions!

Are you aware of https://github.com/bup/bup? It's a git file format based backup incremental backup tool.

Do you also use rolling checksums (like bup) to prevent re-storing data when only a few bytes have changed?

--> What are the major use cases you imagine for noms?

I've read the section on Github, but can you give some specific examples that you see as good use cases?

Re: Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git

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Post by pinko »

My queston is on scalability. You say "large datasets" on the website. What is large? 1x/10x/100x Terabytes? 1x/10x/100x Petabytes?

What kind of access rates? Etc.

Very general answers are okay -- I'm trying to wrap my head around whether this is even in the right ballpark for my world.

Distinguishing current proof-of-concept vs. design-goal scale is okay too.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git

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Post by pinko »

aboodman wrote: post #2

Hi all. I'm one of the creators of Noms. Happy to answer any questions!

Another question to help me better understand the tool: who do you see as your competitors, technically? What do you see as viable alternatives to Noms, but worse? (Or better!) I do see that you were inspired by git, but clearly your use-cases are different.
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