Global Multi-Cloud Replication in FaunaDB Serverless Cloud

Post by evanweaver » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 12:54 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #18

evanweaver wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will keep this in mind. How would you prefer it to be described?

FaunaDB Serverless Cloud remains the only {hosted|SaaS} multi-master, globally-distributed cloud database? I don't really like those either. Just something that says "you don't have to set this up for yourself like Cassandra or Riak." Although that reminds me that you can get a turnkey Riak setup, so your claim is still a bit dubious. I now get what you're trying to say though. That you guys host a multi-master datab…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 2:49 PM UTC

nemothekid wrote: post #22

jedberg wrote: post #12

> FaunaDB Serverless Cloud remains the only multi-master, globally-distributed cloud database. Cassandra or Datastax? Cassandra has been doing this for years. Or did they mean the only hosted option? Edit: Made me sound less rude.

Isn't Google Cloud's Cloud Spanner hosted, multi-master, and globally-distributed?

Post by eldenbishop » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 5:30 PM UTC

marknadal wrote: post #19

Sigh, the contrast between both the current CockroachDB submission and this FaunaDB one is a perfect comparison. - CockroachDB starts with an image explaining how their query engine handles requests. - FaunaDB starts with saying they are the only multi-master cloud database. - CockroachDB then spends the next 3K words to explain how and why. - FaunaDB claims that others are just cross "continental" systems, and that…