gefjon
Re:Ok, but Does It Scale?
on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:38AM (#49566181)
SpacetimeDB is not Open Source Software. It is "source-available," but is a commercial product.
Re:Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:31PM (#38552516)
> 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.
Re:Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:26PM (#38552491)
Are you familiar with any existing ECS implementations which expose a SQL interface?