I can see that. There are various vectors to performance. I hear you saying transactions per second would be unimpressive.
A couple of less time sensitive applications are: 1. distrubuting information the entire fleet should eventually know, 2. event log aggregation with fine-grained time alignment among nodes.
Both are probably silly problems to solve with a database, killing houseflys with sledghammers and all that, but it never hurts to explore creative tool misuse :)
Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB
by alexis_read on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:34AM
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I think Scuttlebutt might be more suitable for you? Extract the text from a conversation on each robot.
The offline story is easy here.
The other option would be some sort or CRDT-based system - Antidote perhaps?
But performance is going to suck if you run server nodes over unreliable connections. I have trouble seeing a FoundationDB cluster running on mobile robots as more than a trade show gimmick. Albeit an awesome gimmick. So in summary you should totally do that.