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   by ahachete 5y ago

   Please also note that there are two concepts here that can easily get mixed. For clarification: * Zookeeper's wire protocol is emulated in CH-Keeper. Nice! So all clients are compatible, etc. * Zookeeper uses a distributed consensus al
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   by ahachete 5y ago

   > They rewrite the ZK protocol using multi-paxos within CH itself. It appears to be implemented with Raft, not Paxos (per https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup54/keeper.pdf , slide 21).
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   by ahachete 5y ago

   Yes, good luck! :)
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   by ahachete 5y ago

   It was both. There were two separate software based on the same underlying technology: * ToroDB Stampede[1]: MongoDB replica, converting on-the-fly documents to relational structures. Targeting OLAP, as data normalization made queries from
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   by ahachete 5y ago

   ToroDB founder here. Thank you for mentioning this. Unfortunately, yes, ToroDB is no longer being developed. I still believe it's a fantastic idea, and provides significant value. But when it was being built, 5 years ago, the NoSQL (as
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   Easily Running Babelfish for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes(stackgres.io)

   2 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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   Easily Running Babelfish for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes(stackgres.io)

   1 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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   by ahachete 5y ago

   Hi. I find the project very cool and interesting. Good job! I wanted to comment on what you state in the FAQ [1] about the license: "_We realize this is quite a restrictive license_". I think this is not correct, nor a good thing.
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   by ahachete 5y ago

   > I am estimating that your database space isn't MySQL, which is just fine of course. You are absolutely right :) My background is strongly on Postgres, you can see from my profile more information if you want to. So yes, I apologiz
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    > Thank you! Please first see my comments to parent Thank you indeed for the time taken to answer all my comments. Now together with all the information here, I understand how it works, and what the trade-offs are. If my input serves for
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    I think this comment answers most of my questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29248306 Can you confirm (PS) this is how it works? From what I understand here, there are "shadow servers", replicating from
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    Thank you for your comments, I appreciate it. I'm still not sold, however. I would like to understand the underlying principles, "how this works". I don't need implementation details (happy if they are shared, though) bu
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    I'm a bit confused with the "branching" [0] and "non-blocking schema changes" [1] features. I'm confused as they sound like "the next big thing" and I don't see anything special here. Not saying
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    Easily Running Babelfish for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes(stackgres.io)

    2 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: StackGres: open-source Postgres-aaS on Kubernetes with 120 Extensions(stackgres.io)

    2 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    Alternative rocket builder SpinLaunch completes first test flight(spinlaunch.com)

    2 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    >Plus maybe some pgtune: Alternative tuning guide: https://postgresqlco.nf/tuning-guide (Disclosure: part of the team behind it)
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    StackGres 1.0.0: open-source Postgres-aaS with 120 Extensions(stackgres.io)

    11 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    StackGres 1.0: open-source Postgres-aaS with 120 Extensions(stackgres.io)

    4 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    I wrote recently a piece [0] on why I believe you should run your databases in Kubernetes. FYI. [0]: https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-will-revolutionize-enterpr...
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    StackGres 1.0.0: open-source Postgres-aaS with 120 Extensions(stackgres.io)

    3 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    I assumed it is $14k/core as for the standard edition it is quoted "Standard - per core". It is a weird for me that in the same table the number above is not per core. Yet you know much better than I do, so I will take your n
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    > MS SQL server is relatively cheap At $14K/core [0] for the Enterprise edition, it doesn't fit exactly on my definition of cheap. Sure, it's 1/4th of Oracle's price, but still translates to 6-7 figures for even
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    This is fantastic news. I already blogged about it when it was announced on December last year [0]. Adding SQL Server compatibility opens Postgres to new users, use cases, markets. It makes one of the most general-purpose databases to reach
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    Babelfish for PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL with SQL Server Compatibility(babelfishpg.org)

    1 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    StackGres 1.0.0: open-source Postgres-aaS with 120 Extensions(stackgres.io)

    3 points by ahachete 5y ago|0 comments
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    If you want some easy-to-hack --but very hackish-- shell scripts, you may find this interesting: https://ongres.com/blog/automation-to-run-vms-based-on-vanil...
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    Glad to hear that. Yes, indeed we have considered doing a TF module for the configuration management API :)
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    Hi Andy. First of all, congrats for the project. As you probably know, you and any other user can indeed manage Postgres configurations, in any environment, via an API. See the "MANAGE" section in https://postgresqlco.n
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    by ahachete 5y ago

    Hi HN, I’m Alvaro Hernandez, Founder of OnGres (OnGres == “ON postGRES”) [01]. I started using Postgres before the year 2,000 --and never looked back. Postgres reliability, feature set, its incredible documentation, Community, and access to