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Sounds like however bolts on PG compatible SQL layer on top will have a killer product on their hands :)
Have a look at CockroachDB
Quick question: I know there's a watch API, but is there any way to subscribe to a change feed from foundationdb? I'd like to consume the FDB event log to do external indexing & map-reduce work.
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Speaking as the original author of this monstrosity of a build system, please be careful before offering praise here. To be clear, there is a top-level, non-recursive Makefile that uses the second expansion feature of GNU make, translating Visual Studio project files into generated Makefile inputs that are transformed into targets to power the build. Although it starts by running `make`, it's about as in-house as a t…
Fair enough, I stand corrected. Superficially it seems like a more pleasant experience than dealing with gn/ninja as an end user.
This is INCREDIBLE news! FoundationDB is the greatest piece of software I’ve ever worked on or used, and an amazing primitive for anybody who’s building distributed systems. The short version is that FDB is a massively scalable and fast transactional distributed database with some of the best testing and fault-tolerance on earth[1]. It’s in widespread production use at Apple and several other major companies. But the…
How's this compare to https://github.com/pingcap/tikv ? It's a relatively new distributed KV store written in Rust that also is transactional and backs the new TiDB database.
This is INCREDIBLE news! FoundationDB is the greatest piece of software I’ve ever worked on or used, and an amazing primitive for anybody who’s building distributed systems. The short version is that FDB is a massively scalable and fast transactional distributed database with some of the best testing and fault-tolerance on earth[1]. It’s in widespread production use at Apple and several other major companies. But the…
How does this compare with CockroachDB? I'm planning to use CockroachDB for a project but would love to get an idea if I can get better results with FoundationDB.
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Curious why the client is complicated compared to other dbs in same space ?
In some distributed databases the client just connects to some machine in the cluster and tells it what it wants to do. You pay the extra latency as it redirects these requests where they should go. In FDB's envisioned architecture, the "client" is usually a (stateless, higher layer) database node itself! So the client encompasses the first layer of distributed database technology, connects directly to services throu…
This is INCREDIBLE news! FoundationDB is the greatest piece of software I’ve ever worked on or used, and an amazing primitive for anybody who’s building distributed systems. The short version is that FDB is a massively scalable and fast transactional distributed database with some of the best testing and fault-tolerance on earth[1]. It’s in widespread production use at Apple and several other major companies. But the…
Would it be possible to build a tree DB on top of it like MonetDB/Xquery? I always wondered why XML databases never took off, I've never seen anything else quit as powerful. Document databases if du jour seem comparatively lame.
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How does this compare with CockroachDB? I'm planning to use CockroachDB for a project but would love to get an idea if I can get better results with FoundationDB.
well FoundationDB for one doesn't resort to clickbaity pseudo-benchmark marketing tactics https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/performance-part-two/