How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database

Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by chrisco255 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:15AM (#36045488)

Does anyone have any good resources that cover the implementation of wasm as a plug-in system on either a backend or frotend? Just curious to deep dive on this. Could be a video or in-depth article.

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by chatmasta on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:59AM (#36046232)

We (Splitgraph) implemented WASM UDFs in Seafowl [0], a database written in Rust based on Datafusion and optimized for executing queries "at the edge" and returning cache-friendly HTTP responses. Users can call CREATE FUNCTION within an SQL query to create a WASM UDF (docs [1]).

We blogged [2] about this feature, and you can read the relevant PRs [3] containing the changes necessary for its implementation.

[0] https://seafowl.io

[1] https://seafowl.io/docs/guides/custom-udf-wasm

[2] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/seafowl-wasm-udfs

[3] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Asplitgraph%2Fseafowl+wasm...

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by nilslice on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @12:03PM (#36046280)

woah, awesome! sorry this didn't come up in our research. will try to update and fit it into the post if that's ok?

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by chatmasta on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @12:04PM (#36046290)

Sure thing! And no worries, we haven't been great at marketing ourselves :)

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by digikata on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:57AM (#36046199)

Fluvio is an open source data pipeline project [1] w/ plugin wasm modules for data transformations as "SmartModules"[2]. In our case we can run wasm plugins on frontend or backend (none of which require a browser). Feel free to come by our Discord if you have any questions. Disclosure: I work as a engineer for Infinyon backing the project.

[1] https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio

[2] https://www.fluvio.io/smartmodules/

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by zephraph on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:43AM (#36045970)

dylibso, the company who posted this, built extism (mentioned by wikiwong)

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by nilslice on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:57AM (#36046193)

We sure did =) Thank you, zephraph!

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by wikiwong on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:19AM (#36045562)

have you seen this project? https://extism.org

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Re:How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database by nilslice on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:04PM (#36047280)

We have an end-to-end demo of a plug-in system driven game platform: https://github.com/extism/game_box (live deployment at https://gamebox.fly.dev/)

Backend in Elixir, with Extism embedded and example plug-ins in Rust and Javascript!

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