Re:Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
by gefjon on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:31PM
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> If you have a middleware layer as you are describing, it's written in a real programming language with all the adjacent tools (source control, debugging, etc).
This is very much the point of SpacetimeDB. We write stored procedures in Rust or C# (or theoretically, any language that compiles to WASM), and we get all the same developer tools we're used to.
> There's no performance advantage.
There very much is a performance advantage to executing WASM in-process compared to communicating over an IPC barrier or, god forbid, a network.
This is very much the point of SpacetimeDB. We write stored procedures in Rust or C# (or theoretically, any language that compiles to WASM), and we get all the same developer tools we're used to.
> There's no performance advantage.
There very much is a performance advantage to executing WASM in-process compared to communicating over an IPC barrier or, god forbid, a network.