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Re:Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB by adamnemecek on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:15PM (#21130743)
It uses kafka as an operational primitive. Kafka is somewhat complicated but it also solves real problems. I can see a fast, distributed db built on top of kafka.
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Re:Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB by qaq on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:25PM (#21131984)
There fast distributed DBs and they are generally built on top of distributed ordered key-value stores. Many of them do not require to run external components like zookeeper. What is the advantage of running one on top of Kafka?
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Re:Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB by Godel_unicode on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:24PM (#21132329)
The main benefit I have heard is that some people already have Kafka.
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Re:Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB by qaq on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:48PM (#21132466)
in what sense is it a benefit?
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