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Hi rekoros, I am the CTO/Founder of YugaByte and author of the above post. Thanks for your comments, glad you liked the post! You make a great point about Yuga

Hi rekoros, I am the CTO/Founder of YugaByte and author of the above post. Thanks for your comments, glad you liked the post! You make a great point about YugaByte DB using Apache Kudu to start out, but wanted to clarify a few things. * This is a post about our architectural decisions in building a distributed SQL database, and less so about how we actually implement it. Hence there is no mention of any starting points as far as the codebase. * Also, we have used the RocksDB and PostgreSQL codebases in their entirety in addition to Apache Kudu, and make no secret of this fact (https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/architecture/concepts/acknowledgements/ https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/architecture/concepts/ackno...).

Justsignedup 7y ago
I genuinely never thought I'd see a fully distributed db. This is the magic bullet people been looking for in terms of having a simple ish db compared to complex data layers. Incredible work. And supporting full postgresql. This does sound a lot like a marketing post. But me no cares. This is pretty awesome I'm rarely this hyped for a technology.
- sidch 7y ago
  happy that you liked the post. as you could infer, this simplicity is by no means a magic bullet. there are always trade-offs depending on the database type you use as baseline for comparison. we highlight them here: https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/introduction/#what-are-the-trade-offs-involved-in-using-yugabyte-db https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/introduction/#what-are-the-... regarding the tone of the post, we are always open to feedback on how we can do better. let us know through any means possible incl. github and slack.
- manigandham 7y ago
  > "fully distributed db" What do you mean by this? There are lots of examples of distributed databases.
- whargarbl 7y ago
  AFAICT it is very far from supporting full Postgresql.
- ldng 7y ago
  I always though it was one of the pursuit of Google but NoSQL was all the rage and I was never taken seriously ... until F5 that is. Funnily enough, all what I would call "NoSQL papers" are very well known, yet F5 is hardly ever talked about. As if some people would not like to admit they might have been wrong ;-)
  - ddorian43 7y ago
    It's not talked about cause it's named F1 ;)
    - ldng 7y ago
      Yes ! Thanks for the correction.
- gigatexal 7y ago
  Before you let the hyperbole train run it’s course there’s are many distributed databases out there. Vitess+MySQL which runs YouTube, CockroachDB, YugaByte, faunaDB, bedrockDB etc

Justsignedup 7y ago

I genuinely never thought I'd see a fully distributed db. This is the magic bullet people been looking for in terms of having a simple ish db compared to complex data layers. Incredible work. And supporting full postgresql. This does sound a lot like a marketing post. But me no cares. This is pretty awesome I'm rarely this hyped for a technology.

sidch 7y ago
happy that you liked the post. as you could infer, this simplicity is by no means a magic bullet. there are always trade-offs depending on the database type you use as baseline for comparison. we highlight them here: https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/introduction/#what-are-the-trade-offs-involved-in-using-yugabyte-db https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/introduction/#what-are-the-... regarding the tone of the post, we are always open to feedback on how we can do better. let us know through any means possible incl. github and slack.
manigandham 7y ago
> "fully distributed db" What do you mean by this? There are lots of examples of distributed databases.
whargarbl 7y ago
AFAICT it is very far from supporting full Postgresql.
ldng 7y ago
I always though it was one of the pursuit of Google but NoSQL was all the rage and I was never taken seriously ... until F5 that is. Funnily enough, all what I would call "NoSQL papers" are very well known, yet F5 is hardly ever talked about. As if some people would not like to admit they might have been wrong ;-)
- ddorian43 7y ago
  It's not talked about cause it's named F1 ;)
  - ldng 7y ago
    Yes ! Thanks for the correction.
gigatexal 7y ago
Before you let the hyperbole train run it’s course there’s are many distributed databases out there. Vitess+MySQL which runs YouTube, CockroachDB, YugaByte, faunaDB, bedrockDB etc