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I really want to be excited by this. For better or worse, after being in this industry for a long time now all I can say about a new database launch is: cool,
by xb95 14y ago
I really want to be excited by this.
For better or worse, after being in this industry for a long time now all I can say about a new database launch is: cool, I'd love to talk to you in 3-5 years when you've had time to work out the hinks and people have figured out what your strengths and weaknesses are and where the real gotchas will getcha.
Until then: good luck. A distributed, linearly scalable, easy-to-admin NoSQL database with transaction support and full ACID would be delicious indeed.
- Dave_Rosenthal 14y agoI totally understand this perspective. FWIW, we're trying to be as open as we can about those "gotchas". You might be interested in our: - Known limitations (http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/known-limitations.html http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/known-limitation...) - Anti-features (http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/anti-features/ http://foundationdb.com/white-papers/anti-features/) - Performance considerations (http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/developer-guide.html#developer-guide-peformance-considerations http://foundationdb.com/documentation/beta1/developer-guide....) Talk to you in a few years :)
- xb95 14y agoFWIW, those documents are a fantastic start and contain the sort of things that I wish I had known about MongoDB and Riak before embarking on quests to use them. I hope you do well -- the world really needs a good amalgamation of strong data integrity (ACID, transactions) and the ease-of-life that distributed databases generally give you. Since I don't work in an industry where I need microsecond reads, I'm perfectly happy to pay the cost of "it might take 10s of milliseconds to commit this" if I can avoid having to go down the "okay, now I have to shard my project" path for an eighth time. :-)