Ouch, the guys at edgedb are going to be sad about the name competition from microsoft.
If the reverse happened, no doubt Microsoft would be sending cease and desists to edgedb.
EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
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Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#12The title is a bit misleading: EdgelessDB was not developed by Microsoft but by a German startup (Edgeless Systems, https://www.edgeless.systems/ and https://github.com/edgelesssys/edgelessdb).
The announcement is about its availability on the Azure Marketplace.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#13The title is a bit misleading: EdgelessDB was not developed by Microsoft but by a German startup (Edgeless Systems, https://www.edgeless.systems/ and https://github.com/edgelesssys/edgelessdb ). The announcement is about its availability on the Azure Marketplace.
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Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#14Note: while it is based on MariaDB, it replaces InnoDB (the MariaDB/MySQL storage engine) with MyRocks (which is based on RocksDB), and as a consequence it is missing some features (such as foreign keys[1]) that prevent it from being usable in many applications.
[1] https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6/wiki/MyRocks-limitatio...
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#15this is genuine question
but why lately everything is Edge?
Edge Computing, Edge Devices, Edge Infrastructure, Edge Browser, Edge yada yada.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#16this is genuine question but why lately everything is Edge? Edge Computing, Edge Devices, Edge Infrastructure, Edge Browser, Edge yada yada.
Because we’re seeing the tock, to the Cloud’s tick.
Many aspects of compute are moving out of the data center and closer to the end user.
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#17this is genuine question but why lately everything is Edge? Edge Computing, Edge Devices, Edge Infrastructure, Edge Browser, Edge yada yada.
The natural cycle between centralisation and decentralisation.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#18this is genuine question but why lately everything is Edge? Edge Computing, Edge Devices, Edge Infrastructure, Edge Browser, Edge yada yada.
Corporate marketing types have to justify their existence by rebranding everything, and they're like sharks in a never ending feeding frenzy.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#19Ouch, the guys at edgedb are going to be sad about the name competition from microsoft.
If the reverse happened, no doubt Microsoft would be sending cease and desists to edgedb.
Has Microsoft been particularly litigious of late? Pearl clutching over Microsoft’s use of telemetry (which Google never uses, by contrast) has turned into full-blown Slashdot-style insanity.
Re: EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
#20The title is a bit misleading: EdgelessDB was not developed by Microsoft but by a German startup (Edgeless Systems, https://www.edgeless.systems/ and https://github.com/edgelesssys/edgelessdb ). The announcement is about its availability on the Azure Marketplace.
Fixed above. Thanks!