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Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB
- bithavoc 8y agoSo when FoundationDB was acquired, Snowflake kept using it as some sort of internal fork? Wow
- jitl 8y agoYeah, I’m curious to know how this worked.
- newsat13 8y agonot a fork. they got it via an escrow
- thepumpkin1979 8y agoYou’re right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262276
- ashishnm 8y agoYes, we kept using FoundationDB, primarily because of its reliability. The layers we built on top don't have knowledge of the underlying architecture.
- manigandham 8y agoWill any of these layers on top be open-sourced? FDB itself is rather low-level and will result in duplicate efforts building another SQL/data layer. It's rather interesting to see how many companies have been using FoundationDB silently this whole time...
- ashishnm 8y agoTo be clear we haven't built a SQL layer on top of FDB. It's a metadata store for us where we store objects. We haven't decided whether to open source the object-mapping layer. It's plausible, and if we do it will take some work. But we are certain to contribute to the FDB community. So do keep an eye out.
- edwinyzh 8y ago@ashishnm, Thanks for sharing, after I read the HN excitement around the open sourcing of foundationdb, I had a question in my mind and I hope it's not to off-topic to ask here - do you happened to know is it feasible to implement a SQL Layer on top of foundationdb, using Sqlite's Virtual Table mechanism (http://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html http://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html)?