last time I tested it needed to fetch the whole db to do even the most basic reads, so even simple but long running applications had a very long, network intensive initialization time. is that still the case?
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#22javascript? No thanks.
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#23eventually consistent database Is an oxymoron
When you get down to it, between cache coherency across CPUs and memory, disk flush delays and disk caches, every database is eventually consistent.
And if you want to operate over a distributed network, which means you WILL have network partitions, then you are subject to CAP and will need eventual consistency mechanisms.
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#25p2p DB in JS using CRDT. That sounds a lot like GUN. How does OrbitDB compare to GUN?
Gun is a graph database. I don't think Orbit uses a graph system, but instead uses feeds or KV stores. So that's a another difference. But Gun can use IPFS as a storage adapter if you wanted.
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#26eventually consistent database Is an oxymoron
Ask me how I know you've never scaled a high throughput Elasticsearch cluster.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another one is that the source code of OrbitDB is not completely obfuscated.
Can you elaborate? Source code to GUN is right here: https://github.com/amark/gun/tree/master/src
Yes sorry for not doing this. In the source code folder, please open any random file and try to understand what the code does.
I once tried to fix a bug that I found in GUN but I gave up after just trying to figure out what the code is supposed to do.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another one is that the source code of OrbitDB is not completely obfuscated.
Can you elaborate? Source code to GUN is right here: https://github.com/amark/gun/tree/master/src
Have you tried reading it?
( Not sure "obfuscated" is the word I'd use, though. )
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate? Source code to GUN is right here: https://github.com/amark/gun/tree/master/src
Yes sorry for not doing this. In the source code folder, please open any random file and try to understand what the code does. I once tried to fix a bug that I found in GUN but I gave up after just trying to figure out what the code is supposed to do.
Wow. You are right. What the heck.
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#30It looks like they have an identity provider, so this must support authentication. Link: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db-identity-provider What I'd like to know is do they support authorization?
I believe it generates a pub/priv key pair and stores it in localstorage.