mr_pickles

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   by mr_pickles 8y ago

   No mention of Clustrix? The Spanner paper was in 2012. Clustrix started working on a "NewSQL" database in 2006 and had a product out in 2010.
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   by mr_pickles 8y ago

   It was a fault-tolerant, fully distributed relational database which was compatible with MySQL's variant of SQL. There were no key-value stores involved. Tables (and indexes) were automatically partitioned and replicated as needed, com
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   by mr_pickles 8y ago

   Alright, for your education startup employees, let's run through some numbers I have as a stockholder in Clustrix. In 2010, they raised $12M in their Series B at ~$100M post-money valuation. Things were looking alright. In 2013, they r
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   by mr_pickles 8y ago

   I don't actually know the terms yet, I just assumed. I only learned of the acquisition from hackernews.
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   by mr_pickles 8y ago

   Early Clustrix employee here. Holy cow that took a long time! 12 years since the company was founded and finally they exit. I can't wait to exchange my illiquid startup stock for... stock in a _different_ private company.