ashishnm

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   by ashishnm 8y ago

   To be clear we haven't built a SQL layer on top of FDB. It's a metadata store for us where we store objects. We haven't decided whether to open source the object-mapping layer. It's plausible, and if we do it will take s
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   by ashishnm 8y ago

   Yes, we kept using FoundationDB, primarily because of its reliability. The layers we built on top don't have knowledge of the underlying architecture.
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   by ashishnm 8y ago

   Latter. It's a Java library used by our services.
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   by ashishnm 8y ago

   I echo what wwilson has said. I work at Snowflake Computing, we're a SQL analytics database in the cloud, and we have been using FoundationDB as our metadata store for over 4 years. It is a truly awesome product and has proven to be ro
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   Snowflake Metadata powered by FoundationDB(snowflake.net)

   42 points by ashishnm 8y ago|8 comments