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Sounds interesting but there is not enough information for me to get a picture of what this actually means. Thought I was gonna be clever and install it, run it

Sounds interesting but there is not enough information for me to get a picture of what this actually means. Thought I was gonna be clever and install it, run it and see what it is all about but I can't figure out how to get it. One link is "sign up" and the other is "contact sales" but I'm not interested in either, I'm interested in "Download" but I cannot find it anywhere. Am I stupid or misunderstanding something fundamentally here? Is just a hosted DB or something like that?

moshmosh 5y ago
It's a hosted DB, and as far as I can tell the Killer Feature is that it makes schema updates less painful. How it does that without significant performance trade-offs or caps is unclear to me. [EDIT] on reading further in their docs, my suspicion is that their "branching" concept is a hell of a lot more limited than I believed at first. I initially took it to mean you could have multiple active schemas working on your data at once—instead, I think it's more like exporting just the schema of your DB and importing it to a fresh DB, which is nothing new and doesn't run into all kinds of operational and security issues the other workflow would. I'm fairly sure all the actual magic is in the schema diffing, and the docs make me think even that isn't as fully-magical as one might hope.
- lizztheblizz 5y ago
  It's closer to your original assumption than your second. Branching relies on vreplication, and it does actually allow you to develop multiple versions of your schema against your full production dataset. The "magic" is a powerful materialization engine that allows every branch to maintain its own version, and it _does_ allow you to work with your actual data. This is just scratching the surface of what that can do, though. We have loads more features cooking. :)

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Sounds interesting but there is not enough information for me to get a picture of what this actually means. Thought I was gonna be clever and install it, run it

by capableweb 5y ago

moshmosh 5y ago
It's a hosted DB, and as far as I can tell the Killer Feature is that it makes schema updates less painful. How it does that without significant performance trade-offs or caps is unclear to me. [EDIT] on reading further in their docs, my suspicion is that their "branching" concept is a hell of a lot more limited than I believed at first. I initially took it to mean you could have multiple active schemas working on your data at once—instead, I think it's more like exporting just the schema of your DB and importing it to a fresh DB, which is nothing new and doesn't run into all kinds of operational and security issues the other workflow would. I'm fairly sure all the actual magic is in the schema diffing, and the docs make me think even that isn't as fully-magical as one might hope.
- lizztheblizz 5y ago
  It's closer to your original assumption than your second. Branching relies on vreplication, and it does actually allow you to develop multiple versions of your schema against your full production dataset. The "magic" is a powerful materialization engine that allows every branch to maintain its own version, and it _does_ allow you to work with your actual data. This is just scratching the surface of what that can do, though. We have loads more features cooking. :)