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Your understanding of what occurred in the acquisition is incorrect. (Source: I am a former FoundationDB employee.) Unfortunately I can’t say much more than tha
by wwilson 9y ago
Your understanding of what occurred in the acquisition is incorrect. (Source: I am a former FoundationDB employee.) Unfortunately I can’t say much more than that.
The VoltDB post is also wrong in many of its particulars, but I’ve gotten into that argument on this site way too many times by now (and last I checked John agreed that some of its claims were overly hasty).
If there’s a particular question about FoundationDB’s performance characteristics that you’re curious about, I can probably give you a straight answer provided that it was once public information.
- eloff 9y agoI'm happy to hear that I'm wrong. It obviously looked a lot like an aqui-hire from the outside, and that was the speculation on HN at the time. I hope the FoundationDB team ended up doing great things at Apple.
- jhugg 9y agoTo be pedantic, I don't think I agreed that any of my claims were hasty, just that some of them could be addressed more easily than others. Caching metadata, for example. To be clear, I have a lot of respect for FDB and what their team did; it was only the SQL layer put on top that seemed poorly thought through.