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Re:Show HN: Badger – an embeddable, persistent key-value sto... by foodie_ on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:32PM (#14633869)
Why would one want to though? (edit) as in why choose this and invest hundreds (thousands?) of development hours doing so. What ROI would support this?
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Re:Show HN: Badger – an embeddable, persistent key-value sto... by true_religion on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:58PM (#14633977)
Because you were already committed to building a database yourself, so RockDB saves you time in building the base layer.

Transaction support comes with a set of performance compromises, and different companies may want to make different compromises.

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