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by nlavezzo 8y ago
Another (non-technical) founder here - and I echo everything voidmain just said. We built a product that is unmatched in so many important ways, and it's fantastic that it's available to the world again. Will be exciting to watch
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by nlavezzo 8y ago
Founder here. To the best of my knowledge, you are correct. ACID is getting thrown around a lot these days, and not being used in its strictest sense.
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
All of the transactions in the test noted in the blog are multi-key transactions. (20 key updates)
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
At FoundationDB we recently did a blog about using FDB for time series data: http://blog.foundationdb.com/designing-a-schema-for-time-ser... One of our largest customer installations is for this purpose.
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
FoundationDB - Developer; Sales Engineer - DC, Boston, Bay Area --------------------------------- ---- About FoundationDB ------- --------------------------------- FoundationDB is the company behind the eponymous distributed database. Found
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
Thanks :) I tried copy / pasting from July's and the formatting went to hell. Took me 15 mins to fix because someone walked in my office while I was fixing it.
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
Done. Maybe you can remove the downvote?
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
FoundationDB - Developer; Sales Engineer - DC, Boston, Bay Area --------------------------------- ---- About FoundationDB ------- --------------------------------- FoundationDB is the company behind the eponymous distributed database. Found
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Structuring time-oriented data in FoundationDB(blog.foundationdb.com)
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
This looks great - I was just in Italy for several and wishing for something like this, completely in shock that it doesn't exist yet. I can't see any way to sign up for notifications when it's ready - or even a company websi
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
The page linked goes into more detail, but among other things, Compare and Set operations are only concerning one data element at a time - meaning you cannot do Atomic updates to multiple keys. The ability to do multiple key updates atomica
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
They don't have ACID transactions. We had to put up a page to dispel some of the misuse of the term ACID. Aerospike's excerpt: "Aerospike does not provide true ACID transactions. Just like Cassandra 2.0, Aerospike only provid
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
They should make a poster of this. I'd buy several and hang them in each of our conference rooms.
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
This is the most accurate funny thing I've read in a very long time.
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by nlavezzo 12y ago
FoundationDB - Developer; Sales Engineer - DC, Boston, Bay Area --------------------------------- ---- About FoundationDB ------- --------------------------------- FoundationDB is the company behind the eponymous distributed database. Fou
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Yep, that's a big difference. RethinkDB is also a document store, whereas FoundationDB is an ordered K/V store at its core (although transactions / layers allow for richer data modeling through stateless translation "lay
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
This is how we've had our offices in previous companies, and the new office we're building will have this layout as well. It works great. You get privacy or you get sunlight :)
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Software Engineer - FoundationDB - Washington, DC or Boston Metro Area FoundationDB is currently seeking exceptional developers to join our growing team. In this position you will help us continue to build the next generation of transaction
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Yep.
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Consistency and ACID: A new path for NoSQL(sdt.bz)
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
You're not alone in this interest - we hear that as a pain point a lot. If you're really interested in this, keep an eye on this page: https://foundationdb.com/layers :)
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
"Open source has had the reputation of producing good imitations, but not innovation. Perhaps Cassandra’s origins as a hybrid of Dynamo and Bigtable did not disprove this, but Apache Cassandra’s development of lightweight transactions
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
And yet you see now that they have a happy, love filled marriage right now based on serving and loving each other before themselves. I don't think many people are in a position to criticize that. FYIW my wife and I got engaged after 2.
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
The primary feature that distinguishes FoundationDB from other NoSQL databases is that all operations in the database are perforomed through high performance, cross-node ACID transactions. This allows FoundationDB's core ordered key-va
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Here are some helpful related links: Download page (no signup required!), Community License allows for up to 6 server processes in production and unlimited in non-production: https://foundationdb.com/get Pricing page: http
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Yes, and we have paying customers. We're working on some in-depth case studies, but until then, here are some quotes you may be interested in: https://foundationdb.com/testimonials
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Why You Need ACID Transactions(blog.foundationdb.com)
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Quicksand: Continuous Real-World Fault Tolerance Testing(blog.foundationdb.com)
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Our company (FoundationDB) is based in the DC Metro area and we have tons of success hiring and retaining top tier engineering talent. The stories we hear about how hard it is to hire while we're out in SV sound really bad. I can only speak
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by nlavezzo 13y ago
Thank you, sir. We'll have some even cooler demo videos coming in the future!

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