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Building distributed database systems correctly from the ground up is a notoriously hard problem. We have seen this firsthand building Docstore at Uber. This i
by ovaistariq 4y ago
Building distributed database systems correctly from the ground up is a notoriously hard problem. We have seen this firsthand building Docstore at Uber.
This is one of the most confusing aspects of the modern data infrastructure industry, why does every new system have to completely rebuild (not even reinvent!) the wheel? Vendors are spending so much time rebuilding existing solutions, they end up not solving the actual end users’ problems, although ostensibly that's why they decided to create a new data platform in the first place!
In this post we talk about our approach to building Tigris - the open source developer data platform. We talk about why we chose to build on top of FoundationDB, one of the most reliable distributed KV store with an amazing correctness story. We also go into detail about our experience using it.
- metadat 4y agoAre you Himank or Yevgeniy? Good luck with your project, FDB fucked it's users back in 2015 when it abruptly closed shop and went closed source. Hopefully some good can come of it yet.
- ovaistariq 4y agoIt has significant usage across large companies such as Apple, Snowflake, Epic Games, VMWare, etc. I don't see it going closed source. Besides that, here Tigris is taking the responsibility for the product as it is abstracting FoundationDB from the end-user.
- endisneigh 4y agoI can assure you from FDB will not be closed sourced again. But I agree that it was pretty bad for its [open source] users that it was made closed source. Terrible move for adoption.
- spullara 4y agoI mean, that was Apple. It was no small feat to get them to later open source it.
- jen20 4y ago> FDB fucked it's users back in 2015 when it abruptly closed shop and went closed source This is simply untrue - it was not open source prior to acquisition either. The first point at which FDB was open-source was 2018.
- metadat 4y agoFDB screwed their users in 2015 when they abruptly closed shop with no further development, support, or even a migration plan. Gotta get that Apple money.