Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database 7 years ago
AFAICT it is very far from supporting full Postgresql.
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As an aside, can somebody explain the constraints FoundationDB puts on replica distance?
FaunaDB maybe for the database layer: https://fauna.com/blog/introducing-faunadb-serverless-cloud-...
"The current public version of Spanner does not support client-side interactive transactions either."
Did not know that...why?
"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.
Hello Heroku World - Autobenching Heroku 14 years ago
Post says the driver was benched at 25k rps. But yeah that C implementation sucks.
Hello Heroku World - Autobenching Heroku 14 years ago
AFAIK the issue is the way they listen() to the socket, as well as whether the accept is concurrent in some way.
Cassandra 0.5 released 17 years ago
You didn't strace it to see what was going on?