mbravenboer

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   by mbravenboer 5y ago

   Yeah, though I'm not a laywer and I have not personally studied the Tokutek patent in detail. I did consult at some point on this with somebody experienced in database-related software patents, but please do not take legal advice from
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   by mbravenboer 5y ago

   Be-trees were invented in 2003, predating the Tokutek patent: see citation [1] in http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/BenderFaJa15.pdf . I think Tokutek was originally not aware of Be-trees and only later discovered
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   by mbravenboer 5y ago

   Stay tuned for that :). RelationalAI is developed as a multi-tenant service that has a pay-as-you-go model. This should make it possible for everybody to use the product. I expect we will have some free tier options too, but we have not dec
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   by mbravenboer 5y ago

   Thanks, nice to hear! With triples you need to reify hyper edges into nodes (a relation is just a hyper edge). This can lead to pretty awkward models, for example for temporal data. Most graph databases (eg Neo4J) have the same limitation a
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   by mbravenboer 5y ago

   (disclaimer: I am VP of Engineering at RelationalAI where we are building a graph database that uses the relational model) Thanks, this is a great question with many technical, social, and commercial aspects to it. TLDR: the relational mode
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   by mbravenboer 5y ago

   This is really hard to answer in a short comment, but I'll try to highlight a few things: - We use compute/storage separation as in Snowflake and Aurora. This means that data is stored in object storage (for example S3) and comput
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   by mbravenboer 7y ago

   At RelationalAI we use Julia. We're building a system that deeply merges a relational database management system and machine learning. The system is essentially entirely in Julia and currently is about 85K lines of code. Our talks at J
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   by mbravenboer 8y ago

   LogicBlox more or less did that, though restricted to Datalog with various extensions. It's a commercial system though and not publicly available, except for online training material. See https://developer.logicblox.com&#x2F
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   by mbravenboer 9y ago

   Thanks for pointing this out. We also support the IAPF. The images they regularly post on their Facebook account are really shocking and sad. The current rate at which these large animals are killed is frightening. We supported more politic
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    by mbravenboer 12y ago

    Datomic has a very simple concurrency model that makes a sophisticated distributed B-tree like this unnecessary. Minuet carefully manages concurrent access to the data, through snapshots and keeping track of read/write data access per