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Re:Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB by bithavoc on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:39PM (#16881543)
So when FoundationDB was acquired, Snowflake kept using it as some sort of internal fork? Wow
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Re:Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB by ashishnm on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:02AM (#16882268)
Yes, we kept using FoundationDB, primarily because of its reliability. The layers we built on top don't have knowledge of the underlying architecture.
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Re:Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB by jitl on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:58PM (#16881607)
Yeah, I’m curious to know how this worked.
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Re:Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB by newsat13 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:27PM (#16881957)
not a fork. they got it via an escrow
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Re:Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB by thepumpkin1979 on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:39AM (#16885676)
You’re right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262276
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