Stop building databases

Re:Stop building databases by rococosbasilisk on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:24PM (#38493362)

Phillip from PowerSync here, always good to see more people working on problems in this space.

A few things to clarify:

>one multi-tenant centralized db to bidirectionally sync

PowerSync supports syncing from multiple databases.

>The downside is complexity.

I'd say this is true if you're building a partial replication system yourself. PowerSync gives you a ready-built system that's been proven at scale and therefore lets you avoid most of that complexity.

>SQLSync, on the other hand, is full db sync.

It's just as easy to sync the full db with PowerSync as do partial sync.

Edit: formatting

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Re:Stop building databases by carlsverre on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:40PM (#38493545)

Thanks for the clarifying points Phillip. I'm a big fan of PowerSync! Exciting to see you guys go after the partial replication problem.

I've adjusted my comment to be more clear and hopefully more fair. I didn't mean to mis-imply anything about your service.

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Re:Stop building databases by rococosbasilisk on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:56PM (#38493733)

No worries Carl, cheers!

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