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Re:Comdb2 – Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS under Apache 2 by toosleepy on Saturday June 10, 2017 @06:49PM (#14529645)
It wasn't always an SQL system. SQL was added a year or two in its development (with lots of databases already live).
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Re:Comdb2 – Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS under Apache 2 by alexjscotti on Saturday June 10, 2017 @09:22PM (#14530141)
Yep. With a false start or two along the way. One of the most interesting things on this project was repeatedly changing engines while the plane was in the air.
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Re:Comdb2 – Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS under Apache 2 by mponomar on Saturday June 10, 2017 @09:31PM (#14530161)
We've had databases literally up for 10+ years, through 5-6 major version upgrades. There's been one file format change that required downtime very early on.
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