Re:Building a highly-available web service without a database
by tdrhq on Monday August 12, 2024 @04:08PM
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> The paper that definitionally is Raft doesn't tell you how to interact with durable storage.
That's being a bit pedantic. Yeah, I did mean that any respectable library implementing Raft would handle all of this correctly.
> without having to crawl some Btrees by hand.
This is not how I query an index. First, we don't even use Btrees, most of the times it's just hash-tables, and otherwise it's a simpler form of binary search trees. But in both cases, it's completely abstracted away in library I'm using. So if I'm trying to search for companies with a given name, in my code it looks like '(company-with-name "foobar")'. If I'm looking for users that belong to a specific company, it'll look like '(users-for-company company)'.
So I still think you're overestimating the benefits of a query engine.
That's being a bit pedantic. Yeah, I did mean that any respectable library implementing Raft would handle all of this correctly.
> without having to crawl some Btrees by hand.
This is not how I query an index. First, we don't even use Btrees, most of the times it's just hash-tables, and otherwise it's a simpler form of binary search trees. But in both cases, it's completely abstracted away in library I'm using. So if I'm trying to search for companies with a given name, in my code it looks like '(company-with-name "foobar")'. If I'm looking for users that belong to a specific company, it'll look like '(users-for-company company)'.
So I still think you're overestimating the benefits of a query engine.