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You're suffering from a failure of imagination. Consider a CMS, one of the most common forms of database backed applications. What if you could give your custo
by zachmu 4y ago
You're suffering from a failure of imagination.
Consider a CMS, one of the most common forms of database backed applications. What if you could give your customer a "dev" branch of all their data to make their changes on and test out new content, that you could then merge with back to prod after somebody reviews it in a standard PR workflow?
This is the workflow one of our earliest customers built. They run network configuration software, and they use Dolt to implement a PR workflow for all changes their customers make.
More details here:
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-11-19-dolt-nautobot/ https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-11-19-dolt-nautobot/
- Johannesbourg 4y agoPersonally working with timeseries data my experience is that clients typically underestimate how much storage they need for a single state, let alone including historic versions. The decision people want more data, not more snapshots for a given storage spend. But that's timeseries.
- hinkley 4y agoThey want more data but they don't want to pay for it. People want lots of things, doesn't mean they get it or deserve it. I can't recall which it was but one of the timeseries databases was bragging on the fact that there are certain situations where scanning a block of data is as cheap as trying to add finer grained indexes to it, especially with ad hoc queries. They did a bunch of benchmarks that said block scanning with compression and parallelism was workable. And while compression typically leads to write amplification (or very poor compression ratios), in a timeseries database, or a regular database architected in a timeseries-like fashion, modifying the old data is deeply frowned upon (and in fact I've heard people argue for quasi-timeseries behavior because modifying old records is so punishing, especially as the application scales), so as long as you can decide not to compress some pages - new pages - this is not a problem.
- password4321 4y agoSee also: https://versionpress.com https://versionpress.com (not being actively developed)
- zachmu 4y agoIf we were less busy we would adopt versionpress and port it to dolt, such a cool product. Some day.
- lazzlazzlazz 4y agoThis is Hacker News. The norm is a deep, thoughtful understanding of the state of the art and a total inability to apply the imagination to the future.