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where in the article does it say they built their own database?
by n42 3y ago
where in the article does it say they built their own database?
- anentropic 3y agoit said they built a Datomic-like db on top of FoundationDB sounds pretty cool, but was it really necessary...?
- n42 3y agothat's just how FoundationDB is architected; it's not quite the same as building your own DB. the database provides primitives that are safe to build abstractions like this on top of. it's also not quite the same as using an off-the-shelf RDBMS, but they do a pretty good job of explaining why they made that design choice. if anything, viewed through that lens, I'd say it seems quite pragmatic.