evanweaver

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by evanweaver 10y ago
"When I built a query language and optimizer on top of FoundationDB, my inability to push type information down into the storage engine was about the last thing on my mind." What was on your mind? What performance problems did you
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by evanweaver 10y ago
Haha no...it's the opposite of that.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
We specifically chose a monolithic architecture for FaunaDB, since performance improvements invariably come from breaking interface boundaries and sharing additional information. It's been working out well.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
They are durable; will clarify.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
That's one of my favorite benchmarks! You're right that distributed consistency is a beginning, not an end. We are painfully aware of all the startups that have died or are dying on this beach. It's great to be scalable and c
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by evanweaver 10y ago
That's a good and complicated question. They both are fully ACID-compliant systems. The biggest difference as a developer is that Calvin never blocks reads, contested or not. You get causally consistent single-replica reads with no coo
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by evanweaver 10y ago
We have kept it under wraps. The whitepaper will be ready next month most likely.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
The serverless cloud is pay-as-you-go. There is no minimum spend, unlike Spanner's $1000 per month (apparently). And it's cheaper than operating any open source on cloud hardware. On-premises is licensed by core. We have a develop
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by evanweaver 10y ago
In my communities we called the library-style dbs "embedded". I've seen serverless used in this way but it didn't seem common.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
I always thought they were "embedded" databases.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
"Exciting backups" is pretty much thing I want the least.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
FaunaDB is hosted in several AWS regions around the world, so the latency is similar to DynamoDB if you're colocated. We will expand to more AWS regions and other cloud providers soon. The biggest operational difference between FaunaDB
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by evanweaver 10y ago
You can read a little bit about our Twitter experience here: https://fauna.com/blog/welcome-to-the-jungle Twitter still uses the social graph and timeline databases we built years and years ago.
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by evanweaver 10y ago
You can use the database, and eventually we will send you a bill for your usage. :-)
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by evanweaver 10y ago
There is no interruption to the majority of the datacenters that remain connected. We can clarify on the site. You can actually still do temporally consistent reads from the disconnected minority, but obviously they won't have the late
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by evanweaver 10y ago
In case you are wondering what fauna is in general, it's an object-relational, temporal, geographically distributed, strongly consistent, multi-tenant, QoS-managed operational database. It's implemented on the JVM and queried via
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Build a serverless app with a serverless database(fauna.com)
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by evanweaver 10y ago
We're small but we're talking to some very big companies about getting on board as well. Please encourage your leadership to join us! The policy is for everyone; regardless of viewpoint or affiliation. Civic engagement benefits us