PeterCorless

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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Indeed! And for those interested in seeing how Zenly made the switch: https://www.scylladb.com/2017/11/29/zenly-database-replaceme...
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Pythian blog on the topic; note that Cassandra relies on Paxos as a consensus algorithm. Scylla will be using Raft: https://blog.pythian.com/lightweight-transactions-cassandra/
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
The best person to talk to about this is @Ultrabug (Twitter and Github), CTO of Numberly, who moved from MongoDB to Scylla: Fixed link: https://www.scylladb.com/tech-talk/numberly-on-joining-billi...
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
"Stay tuned!" winks and walks away, whistling innocently
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Also, for those looking for the side-by-side comparison with Cassandra, there's this page: https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/cassandra-compatibili...
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Exactly! We're working on LWT & the consensus protocol behind it, Raft. Anyone heading to FOSDEM '19 in Brussels can hear this talk by Duarte Nunes: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/raft_in
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Michael: Would love to speak with you about this very point. Ping me via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petercorless/
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Yep! Talk to Kefu Chai at RedHat. He's using Seastar to rebuild Ceph. Here's his presentation from Scylla Summit 2018 back last October: https://www.scylladb.com/tech-talk/redhat-on-rebuilding-the-...
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
If you are interested in our CEO's take on the Mongo SSPL, we published this blog a few months ago. https://www.scylladb.com/2018/10/22/the-dark-side-of-mongodb...
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Would love to hear your feedback! Ping me on Twitter @PeterCorless
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
I "get it," but I'm not sure this helps.
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
"Postscript: Comments in the Twitter sphere after this post was published indicate that time has not yet healed all in the Apache Cassandra community. The community now has a choice -- compete against itself or direct its energy toward
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DataStax reconnects with Apache Cassandra(zdnet.com)
2 points by PeterCorless 8y ago|1 comments
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback, LaserToy!
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
ScyllaDB's Dor Laor weighs in with his opinion on the new Confluent license: https://www.scylladb.com/2018/12/15/saas-vs-oss-fight-or-fli...
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
What was your own experience like?
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Good to know!
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
I'd just point out Scylla tries to auto-tune itself, so you don't need to know about or perform such dark arcana just to get it working out-of-the-box. I mean, I get it. Databases are hard. But this is a hidden gotcha that you sho
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Though Amazon's managed service isn't completely managed at that scale either. There are still hot key partitions. There are still other issues that cause people to abandon DynamoDB at scale. And people still have "the blindf
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
We have a Charybdefs; a fault-injection filesystem for testing. https://github.com/scylladb/charybdefs
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
It is also far more dependent on personality of project leadership and contributors than pure % of code committed. Jay is well-regarded as a 'good guy' and has the interest of the technology at heart. Such personalities in leaders
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
I also give it a +1. There's a lot of debate presently around what I call the "Little Red Hen" problem. Everyone wants to "eat the bread" when y'all are done, but very few people want to help grind the grain or
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
> "...or that requires 5000 nodes?" While there are indeed deployments that large, I've yet to see a 5,000 node _benchmark_. Though if you've seen tests that big, please send me the link!
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
btw: Draftable was a great tool to do the side-by-side comparison of the licenses. Definitely recommend if you want to display diffs in docs on the web. (Disclosure: I wrote this blog.)
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by PeterCorless 8y ago
Can't wait to see if you can use this with ScyllaDB!
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Spark Meetup: Spark Data Sources: Overview of API+HBase Data Source from Huawei(youtube.com)
2 points by PeterCorless 12y ago|0 comments
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by PeterCorless 12y ago
Congrats to the FoundationDB team from us at Aerospike. We respect what FoundationDB was doing with NoSQL and ACID and believe this validates the importance of reliability and enterprise-readiness in the NoSQL market. I'd love to hear
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by PeterCorless 12y ago
The main issues it was able to solve for Aerospike were critical. It added debugging capabilities that allowed telling the difference between a memory leak vs. memory fragmentation (which can seem the same to an untrained eye). It mitigated
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Simplify Scaling: Use 1 Aerospike Server, Not 12 Redis Shards(aerospike.com)
7 points by PeterCorless 12y ago|0 comments