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Has the lack of interactive transactions and only supporting entirely deterministic transactions been a big issue for your customers? My understanding is you'r

• evanweaver 8y ago
  No, it hasn't. It is possible to layer an optimistic concurrency model for session transactions on top of our protocol, but the database standard library is sufficiently full-feature that it's easy to express most application logic as a pure function over the current state of the database. Most read/modify/write cycles end up being essentially that, but with the added confusion of local application threading and standard library. We eliminate that, but preserve the general ability to express a complex query in application code (which also increases application concurrency since the database executes transactions with maximum parallelism.) Transactions do not have to be pre-registered as stored procedures.
• jchrisa 8y ago
  This FaunaDB ledger tutorial gives a feel for how you'd build out your application logic: https://fauna.com/blog/tutorial-how-to-create-and-query-a-ledger-with-faunadb https://fauna.com/blog/tutorial-how-to-create-and-query-a-le... If you want to see a query with precondition checks etc, the code at the end of this post is another example: https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-ledger-without-the-blockchain https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-ledger-without-the-blockc...