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If every startup used every scale-proof method available from the beginning they'd never have the time or resources to build the products to get the customers t
by jack_riminton 3y ago
If every startup used every scale-proof method available from the beginning they'd never have the time or resources to build the products to get the customers that would require them to use the scale-proof methods
- esafak 3y agoI agree with your general point but there are relational distributed databases, open source and "serverless", that are compatible with MySQL (planetscale, tidb, vitess...) and postgres (citus, cockroachdb...) edited for examples.
- noja 3y agoOne reason they don't is unhelpful comments like these: alluding to products without naming them.
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- ofrzeta 3y agoFrom the article: "During our evaluation, we explored CockroachDB, TiDB, Spanner, and Vitess". Three of them are open source if I am not mistaken.
- mplanchard 3y agoAnd many of these are substantially more expensive than RDS, or have terrible INSERT performance, or require making the correct decisions really early about what to use as partition keys. There's no free lunch, sadly.
- Closi 3y agoI don't think these were mature products when Figma started to be developed in 2012.