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I just want to personally thank Slava for his exceptional work over the past few years - at every step him and his team have been classy and professional, and b
by jgord 10y ago
I just want to personally thank Slava for his exceptional work over the past few years - at every step him and his team have been classy and professional, and brought real creativity and intelligence to the world of databases and startups.
Its clear to me that Rethink is the model for future databases - its just that DBs have a long gestation as no-one wants to risk their data until the code is aged like a fine wine. Its an important longterm technology play - just the kind we need to improve things for all of us.
In two or three years I think they would be making money, I think this is a failure of capitalism or imagination our HN/SV community.
To those several of us who have the power to write a check, please consider doing so, Rethink have been relentlessly building the future [ and you will make money ]
- hueving 10y agoI'm not sure you can chalk this up to a failure of capitalism. Postgres is a tough database to contend with and it's mature and open source. People like to hate on mysql/mariadb, but it also has a massive open source community. As a company choosing open source technologies, the popularity is important. Otherwise you run into issues finding answers to common problems and you end up paying through the nose for support.
- erichocean 10y ago> Postgres is a tough database to contend with and it's mature and open source. Presumably, that's in part why CockroachDB decided to be more-or-less Postgres-compatible on the wire, and embraced SQL.
- roachpq 10y ago> CockroachDB decided to be more-or-less Postgres-compatible on the wire, and embraced SQL. I was about to post that a quick grep of CockroachDB source turned up no references to postgres, libpq or anything obvious to back that up that claim but then I noticed my workspace was out of date, so I after a git pull/git grep I now see that you are correct. Commits to add postgres-compatible parsing and wire protocol appear to have landed late last year. Why wasn't I informed! So thank you for this - time for me to take another look at it.
- erichocean 10y agoThey're also trying to make the information catalog compatible-ish as well, so that existing web-style frameworks that parse the information schema to determine datatypes and whatnot work out of the box.
- tshannon 10y agoI'm really excited to see where cockroachDB is headed.
- jinqueeny 10y agoYou can give TiDB a try. TiDB is a NewSQL database inspired by Google Spanner and F1. It supports the best features of both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL. Check it out here: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
- erichocean 10y agoInteresting! First I've heard of it.