emin_gun_sirer

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   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   My group developed the latest, fastest NoSQL system on the scene ( http://hyperdex.org ), one that provides ACID transactions as well as a ton of other exciting features like scalability, consistency and fault-tolerance. Yet when someone as
2. 32.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   :-) Maybe. Let's not forget the part where the new thing, with its limber, simpler architecture completely displaces the old klunker, and provides an extensible, easily customized platform to its users.
3. 33.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   Absolutely spot on. But there is no reason why the translation from the user's query into a series of data accesses cannot happen in the front end. In many ways, NoSQL is a reaction to the poor job RDBMSs were doing in the front end. Everyo
4. 34.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   I'm the "radical" author of this post. It expands this other post ( http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/07/partition-tolerance... ) that busts some commonly propagated myths about partition tolerance in data stores. But the part that I re
5. 35.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   Interesting. There are certainly different kinds of assumptions and invariants. I like the idea of separating them by local vs. global scope; the latter are underdocumented. Much as I like, say, the javadoc format, it channels devs into "fu
6. 36.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   Thanks, fixed!
7. 37.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   Very true. I get wordy when I'm pressed for time. If you write a new, simpler, easier version (Gideon's?), I'll put one in every hotel room.
8. 38.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   I wrote this, to turn my frustrations about the state of NoSQL documentation into something positive. I didn't think it'd get HN'ed so quickly. I look forward to suggestions for new gospel.
9. 39.▲
   by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

   Everything that the server pushes to the client is MAC'ed. If a client were to tamper with, say, the inode number, the MAC check would fail. The client continuation can optionally be encrypted and timestamped as well.
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    by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

    I just noticed that this work got linked from HN today. This is my PhD student Alan Shieh's work, jointly with my colleague Andrew Myers. I'm surprised to see it here, as we did the work back in '05 or so. But it was a lot of fun and I thin
11. 41.▲
    by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

    I not only read but quoted the manual, in parts of the article that you evidently skipped. I also described why SAFE and FSYNC_SAFE, aren't. I also described why getLastError doesn't work when pipelined or multithreaded. It's hard writing
12. 42.▲
    by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

    Something tells me that you did not read the article.
13. 43.▲
    by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago

    The blog is new, and we had a redirection loop in the Nginx configuration that took the site down for a while. Should be fixed now.