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Re: HyperDex: A searchable distributed key-value store

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Post by gizzlon » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 7:13 AM UTC

egs wrote: post #22

gizzlon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That may be so, but people might dismiss everything as bs and before getting to the paper.

A real hacker would never be dismissive of code and claims backed by an open git repo and documentation. That said, HyperDex outperforms and provides stronger guarantees than previous key-value stores due to two architectural differences. First is a new way to distribute data called "hyperspace hashing," whose description requires a picture, and can be found here: http://hyperdex.org/about/ . This is quite different…

"A real hacker would never be dismissive of code and claims backed by an open git repo and documentation"

Time is limited, the stream of new NoSQL projects is less so.

I'm sure the project is interesting, but the webpage comes off as bombastic.

Re: HyperDex: A searchable distributed key-value store

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Post by egs » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 2:41 PM UTC

gizzlon wrote: post #41

egs wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A real hacker would never be dismissive of code and claims backed by an open git repo and documentation. That said, HyperDex outperforms and provides stronger guarantees than previous key-value stores due to two architectural differences. First is a new way to distribute data called "hyperspace hashing," whose description requires a picture, and can be found here: http://hyperdex.org/about/ . This is quite different…

"A real hacker would never be dismissive of code and claims backed by an open git repo and documentation" Time is limited, the stream of new NoSQL projects is less so. I'm sure the project is interesting, but the webpage comes off as bombastic.

You asked for a technical description, and also mentioned that you were unwilling to read a long, detailed technical description, and asked for a "TL;DR." I hope the short summary was useful. If you have technical feedback, we'll be very happy to engage further.

Re: HyperDex: A searchable distributed key-value store

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Post by gizzlon » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 8:28 AM UTC

egs wrote: post #42

gizzlon wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"A real hacker would never be dismissive of code and claims backed by an open git repo and documentation" Time is limited, the stream of new NoSQL projects is less so. I'm sure the project is interesting, but the webpage comes off as bombastic.

You asked for a technical description, and also mentioned that you were unwilling to read a long, detailed technical description, and asked for a "TL;DR." I hope the short summary was useful. If you have technical feedback, we'll be very happy to engage further.

Thanks, I see that I came off as overly negative, sorry.

The things you link to, and a login; article (that I haven't read yet) put things in another light :)

I still think your webpage needs some work though. I twice dismissed hyperdex as "just another nosql/storage project full of s"#¤". I'm probably not the only one.

It's difficult to put my finger on why it comes off as it does, but it might be the density of buzzwords in the first few sentences.

What I actually want to know when looking at new projects is:

  - Where does it fit in the nosql "space"? Is it k.v.? graph? something else? 
  - Why is it different? Why do we need yet another .. [1]

(Just to be clear, I'm not asking you to answer this here, but IMO you should answer i on your homepage)

edit: [1] http://nosql-database.org/

Re: HyperDex: A searchable distributed key-value store

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Post by rescrv » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 4:19 PM UTC

gizzlon wrote: post #43

egs wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You asked for a technical description, and also mentioned that you were unwilling to read a long, detailed technical description, and asked for a "TL;DR." I hope the short summary was useful. If you have technical feedback, we'll be very happy to engage further.

Thanks, I see that I came off as overly negative, sorry. The things you link to, and a login; article (that I haven't read yet) put things in another light :) I still think your webpage needs some work though. I twice dismissed hyperdex as "just another nosql/storage project full of s"#¤". I'm probably not the only one. It's difficult to put my finger on why it comes off as it does, but it might be the density of buz…

Thanks for the positive feedback. We've been working on improving the documentation (and soon, the website). Your feedback certainly helps.