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I don't know the history / timeline of Honeycomb, but was FoundationDB available open source when they decided to write their own DB? If I ever would find myse
by filleokus 3y ago
I don't know the history / timeline of Honeycomb, but was FoundationDB available open source when they decided to write their own DB?
If I ever would find myself walking into building-my-own-database-territory, I would probably first try to reach for FoundationDB and see if that could work.
I've just played around with it, but it seems like a great tool for building high performant and robust distributed databases on top of.
- phillipcarter 3y agoAccording to GitHub, no, but it may have been available before then. Regardless, the design of Honeycomb's database(store?) aligns more with an analytical workload, which FoundationDB lists as a non-goal. It may not have been a good fit then or even now.