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Re:Leveraging Rust in our high-performance Java database by jerrinot on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:58AM (#37583565)
QuestDB engineer here: We use jlink to create images for selected platforms. This means not even JRE is a dependency: You unpack a tarball and you are good to go. See: https://questdb.io/docs/get-started/binaries/
Re:Leveraging Rust in our high-performance Java database by MattPalmer1086 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:24PM (#37586983)
Well, technically it is a dependency in that you can't target platforms there isn't a JRE for. But I take your point about simplifying installation.