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MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition

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Re: MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition

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Post by nikita »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #39
nikita wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When MemSQL is configured for synchronous durability and all databases are configured with synchronous replication, Jepsen confirms that writes to MemSQL are durable and acknowledged appropriately. As part of testing for the 4.0 release, we used the jepsen network partition test and observed data durability equivalent to Postgres( https://aphyr.com/posts/282-call-me-maybe-postgres ) e.g. the scalability of a cluster…

^ would love to see the details of this in a blog post, yeah. Please submit that on HN when it's ready; I'm sure I'm not the only one interested :)

will do!

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Post by takeda »

rjonesx wrote: post #32
stock_toaster wrote: post #13

> The Community Edition is distributed as an executable > binary and is a free edition of the commercial MemSQL > Enterprise Edition. You are free to download and use > MemSQL Community Edition within your organization. So.. how long until the same thing happens as happened with FoundationDB?

While I am an enterprise user of memSQL now, I still have a machine running the beta version 1.0 from years back. It is still stable and still fast as hell.

He's referring to what happened with FoundationDB. The announcement that they were bought by Apple was sudden and they pulled out all their downloads including open source ones. They didn't even update their webpage or give explanation why download links or github repos are gone.

The biggest issue is that FDB is not available even if you would pay. So it sucked for anyone who decided to use it in production.

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Post by superlogical »

The CloudFormation cluster generator tool they have is really cool. (http://cloud.memsql.com/cloudformation) The templates it generates are pretty complex, I wonder if that is hand written or using some kind tool.. would anyone be able to shed some light on how they did it? Do you think most of it is hand coded? I've been playing around with the .NET SDK in VisualStudio 2013.. it includes a cloud formation project type, and you can type out the JSON with Intellisense which is pretty cool.

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Post by ankrgyl »

superlogical wrote: post #45

The CloudFormation cluster generator tool they have is really cool. ( http://cloud.memsql.com/cloudformation ) The templates it generates are pretty complex, I wonder if that is hand written or using some kind tool.. would anyone be able to shed some light on how they did it? Do you think most of it is hand coded? I've been playing around with the .NET SDK in VisualStudio 2013.. it includes a cloud formation project…

Hi @superlogical, thank you for using it and for the kind feedback! CloudFormation by itself provides some very basic level of conditional/looping logic, but we found that it was not enough yet to provide a stellar experience. So, when you fill out the form on cloud.memsql.com, we auto-generate a template (we wrote the code to do this) that matches the parameters you filled in, upload it to an S3 bucket on our account, and then expose it as a download or via GET directly to your AWS account (i.e. you own the hardware/database/data).

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Post by aristus »

BradRuderman wrote: post #43

When can we expect windowing functions, specifically row_number, rank, count, lead, lag, by partition.

All I can say is "it's on the roadmap." :) I used to do a lot of analytics at Facebook and am now a PM at MemSQL, so it's one of my priorities.

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Post by mbesto »

nikita wrote: post #40
mbesto wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might take you up on that! Shoot me your contact details so I can set up (just did a search on my emails and can't find anything). My contact is in my profile. Thanks!

eric at and nikita at memsql.

Cheers!

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Post by tjholowaychuk »

stock_toaster wrote: post #13

> The Community Edition is distributed as an executable > binary and is a free edition of the commercial MemSQL > Enterprise Edition. You are free to download and use > MemSQL Community Edition within your organization. So.. how long until the same thing happens as happened with FoundationDB?

My thoughts exactly. Be careful people!
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