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Great, while I will go deeper into the whitepaper, what is the business model you're counting on and what is the primary usage you're seeing? Very interesting!
by dejan 17y ago
Great, while I will go deeper into the whitepaper, what is the business model you're counting on and what is the primary usage you're seeing?
Very interesting!
- Maro 17y agoOur original vision is related to cloud computing. We suspect that Amazon will not be the only player, and other cloud providers will pop up to compete with them. Also, many small-to-medium size companies we talk to don't like Amazon (too expensive) but have a a few ten servers they wish to use as a distributed system (eg. database). We're attacking the distributed system market bottom-up, using open-source software to gain a foothold. Keyspace was originally planned to be a controler/meta-server, a low-level building block for other distributed systems, similar to how Google uses its Chubby server for GFS and BigTable --- Keyspace, like Google's Chubby, has an implementation of Lamport's Paxos consensus algorithm at its heart. As development proceeded, we made it into a more general key-value store that can also be used in eg. web 2.0 scenarios when high-availability is required.