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Show HN: Okdb – OT Simplified

#1

Post by alexzender » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

Show HN: Okdb – OT Simplified
okdb.io

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Post by alexzender » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC

Hi HN, I'm the author of okdb - wrote it to make it easier to create collaborative apps.

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#3

Post by bsergio » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

Looks like Operational Transformation is getting popular on HN lately, I have a question on another topic though - wondering how would you connect such systems to an existing infrastructure and especially authentication, to enforce user permissions/roles, etc.

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Post by alexzender » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 7:41 PM UTC

bsergio wrote: post #3

Looks like Operational Transformation is getting popular on HN lately, I have a question on another topic though - wondering how would you connect such systems to an existing infrastructure and especially authentication, to enforce user permissions/roles, etc.

Yes, I hope that realtime apps will be our future :)

Regarding integration - okdb provides hooks, so that you can implement custom authentication/verification, e.g. verify JWT token. For details, have a look at the docs here - https://okdb.io/p/docs/api/server#s5.1

Happy to answer any other questions

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Post by jdc » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 8:02 PM UTC

https://okdb.io/p/pricing says there's a BSD licensed community edition.

Anyone know where the source code is hosted?

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Post by alexzender » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 8:05 PM UTC

jdc wrote: post #5

https://okdb.io/p/pricing says there's a BSD licensed community edition. Anyone know where the source code is hosted?

We haven't published the sources yet, it will appear on https://github.com/okdb-io soon.

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Post by zyang » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

sharedb + postgres?

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Post by alexzender » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

zyang wrote: post #7

sharedb + postgres?

yes, we forked and customized sharedb under the hood, more databases and out-of-the-box functions for collaboration are in progress.

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Post by markvitals » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

Why did you choose to use Postgres firsthand as opposed to other SQL/NoSQL solutions?

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Post by alexzender » Thu, Oct 01, 2020, 6:13 AM UTC

markvitals wrote: post #9

Why did you choose to use Postgres firsthand as opposed to other SQL/NoSQL solutions?

Postgres has advanced dramatically in last years and is mostly a default choice in our consulting projects. Take, for example native support for row-level security - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/ddl-rowsecurity.html

However, we are going to support other databases like Mongo and MySQL.