Ex-Googlers CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore

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Post by ethanjones » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:04 PM UTC

Ex-Googlers CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore
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Post by rabino » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:36 PM UTC

Why the 'Ex-Googlers' in the title. Is it like a seal of approval or something?

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Post by calpaterson » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:39 PM UTC

rabino wrote: post #2

Why the 'Ex-Googlers' in the title. Is it like a seal of approval or something?

Yeah, I feel a bit uncomfortable about using the brand of a previous employer so prominently to promote a different project

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Post by quotemstr » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:39 PM UTC

rabino wrote: post #2

Why the 'Ex-Googlers' in the title. Is it like a seal of approval or something?

Haven't you noticed the pedigree obsession of some in our field?

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Post by angrymouse » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:40 PM UTC

rabino wrote: post #2

Why the 'Ex-Googlers' in the title. Is it like a seal of approval or something?

I think that refers to the Wired article http://www.wired.com/2014/07/cockroachdb/

With the tag being sign of pedigree. "A scalable DB from people who worked at a place with huge scale DBs".

Whether it is very convincing or not is another matter, but I am sure it gets more clicks/attention

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Post by ultimape » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:40 PM UTC

I hope Ceph can takes cues from this and be able to do geo-replication at scale.

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Post by wslh » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:46 PM UTC

quotemstr wrote: post #4

rabino wrote: post #2

Why the 'Ex-Googlers' in the title. Is it like a seal of approval or something?

Haven't you noticed the pedigree obsession of some in our field?

In this context it adds more signal than noise. There are zillions of open source projects but when you need to use them in production a very small subset of this universe is ready.

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Post by srcmap » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:57 PM UTC

Comparing to Facebook ' s TAO approach from yesterday post, I like the FB small set of api approach better. But that mainly focus on handling social graph with objects and associations.

On the other hand, almost all my backend related features can be easily abstracted to those APIs.

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Post by eng_monkey » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 1:58 PM UTC

rabino wrote: post #2

Why the 'Ex-Googlers' in the title. Is it like a seal of approval or something?

It is a pretty strange title. Some might interpret it as they started this project after being fired from Google.

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Post by IgorPartola » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 2:02 PM UTC

So I cannot tell if this is aiming to be CA or AP. Having beaten my head against the CAP wall for a while, how does it deal with partitions?