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The authors of the new storage layer mentioned in the GP are the team that originally wrote BerkeleyDB, which has been used for misson critical workloads for de
by hendzen 11y ago
The authors of the new storage layer mentioned in the GP are the team that originally wrote BerkeleyDB, which has been used for misson critical workloads for decades. One of the authors actually invented Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI), the concurrency control mechanism used in Postgres. If you don't trust them to handle your data, I don't really know who you should trust.
- prodigal_erik 11y agoFor quite a long time, mongodb defaulted to buffering writes (presumably to win benchmarks) and dropping errors on the floor. Storage is not the only layer at which their dangerously poor judgment could screw me and my users.