FoundationDB's Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store Is Not Enough

Re:FoundationDB's Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store Is Not Enough by jhugg on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @06:07PM (#9307291)

When I started VoltDB, Mike Stonebraker told me we had to be 10x faster than Oracle sitting on a RAM drive, or nobody would care. 5x wasn't interesting to him.

It seems like FDB-SQL was closer to 1x, with a much better replication story, but with huge limitations on the kinds of things you can do. (https://foundationdb.com/layers/sql/documentation/Concepts/k...)

So maybe you could push it to 2x or 3x with a few years of work, but other new systems with more SQL support and more customer traction are doing 10x and up today. It's a tough sell.

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Re:FoundationDB's Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store Is Not Enough by arthursilva on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @06:19PM (#9307358)

While I do agree with you I don't think anyone used foundation DB sonellly for its sql layer and if they did...

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Re:FoundationDB's Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store Is Not Enough by jhugg on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @06:33PM (#9307436)

Right. I'm not being critical of the underlying KV tech. It seemed pretty impressive from what I know. My two points were: 1. The SQL thing wasn't gonna work they way they went about it. 2. Without SQL or some other powerful query tool, it's a less interesting product.

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