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Re:Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
on Friday April 26, 2019 @10:06PM (#19763321)
AFAICT it is very far from supporting full Postgresql.
Re:Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol
on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:30PM (#18257858)
As an aside, can somebody explain the constraints FoundationDB puts on replica distance?
Re:Ask HN: How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?
on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:23AM (#14602739)
FaunaDB maybe for the database layer: https://fauna.com/blog/introducing-faunadb-serverless-cloud-...
Re:Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale
on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:49PM (#14053397)
"The current public version of Spanner does not support client-side interactive transactions either."
Did not know that...why?
Re:A database built like an operating system: the architecture of FaunaDB
on Friday March 31, 2017 @04:25PM (#14007829)
"FaunaDB implements a process scheduler that
dynamically allocates resources and enforces quality of service...Execution proceeds via cooperative multitasking."
Just like Windows 95! I don't think I've ever seen a database do this. Apparently it operates per-query or at least per application. Operating system seems right; this is a long paper.
Re:Hello Heroku World - Autobenching Heroku
on Thursday March 01, 2012 @01:10AM (#3651139)
Post says the driver was benched at 25k rps. But yeah that C implementation sucks.
Re:Hello Heroku World - Autobenching Heroku
on Thursday March 01, 2012 @01:09AM (#3651137)
AFAIK the issue is the way they listen() to the socket, as well as whether the accept is concurrent in some way.
Why nobody uses LDAP
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Re:Cassandra 0.5 released
on Sunday January 24, 2010 @01:03PM (#1073560)
You didn't strace it to see what was going on?