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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by dbcurtis on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:33PM (#16879871)
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 :)

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by alexis_read on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:34AM (#16882856)
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?

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