zenithm

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by zenithm 7y ago
FaunaDB passed. It also has GraphQL.
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by zenithm 7y ago
Shouldn't talk about Spanner and Percolator without discussing Calvin, either. https://www.infoq.com/articles/relational-nosql-fauna
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by zenithm 7y ago
Netlify has integration with FaunaDB for the database tier.
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by zenithm 8y ago
In the NoSQL space, FaunaDB indexes are very powerful. They are term partitioned and sharded and have compound terms, covered values, transformations, etc.
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by zenithm 8y ago
Are they selling them for money? Or are they just things useful in the consulting process and a way to create awareness for the company? The website advertises professional services, training, support subscriptions, and books. Redhat model
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by zenithm 8y ago
I'm sure everyone involved made some money but aren't they basically a consultancy?
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by zenithm 8y ago
Also FaunaDB which is the NoSQL version
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by zenithm 8y ago
Good to hear from Fauna again. I didn't know that the serialization format was JSON is that a long-term decision? Would a binary format be faster?
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by zenithm 9y ago
I used DocumentDB a while ago but I haven't used the new version. It was a little strange. You have to reason about every possible consistency configuration including transactions and indexes, but you don't actually get much contr
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by zenithm 9y ago
CosmosDB lets you set region failover priority if something goes wrong, does Fauna have a similar model? How does an application know which region to talk to? Especially once you can select a subset of regions to be in. Some might not have
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by zenithm 9y ago
Agree, I understand you need to have referenceable customers...but you have to actually...like...have them. I would imagine you are violating restrictions around the use of these companies trademarks. Similarly confused by the random logos
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by zenithm 9y ago
No response...I think these are companies that have GraphQL APIs, but no actual relationship with Graphcool. They shouldn't be listed as customers.
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by zenithm 9y ago
Facebook, Github, Pinterest, etc. are listed as Graphcool enterprise customers? Is that true?
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by zenithm 9y ago
How does Volt's transaction resolution mechanism compare? It sounds like that would be a third model yet.
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by zenithm 9y ago
Welcome Dan. What other production implementations of Calvin are out there?
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by zenithm 10y ago
Detailed consistency model explanation starts on page 15.
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by zenithm 10y ago
Dynamic isolation sounds cool especially without the overhead of containers. Seems obvious in hindsight I guess.
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by zenithm 10y ago
What's the biggest deployment so far?
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by zenithm 10y ago
What are some lessons you learned at Couchbase that you are applying at Fauna? Importance of a cloud product obviously is one!
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by zenithm 10y ago
This is a new one to me...the referenced paper is here: http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1... How does this algorithm compare to whatever Google Spanner does?
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120K distributed consistent writes per second with Calvin(fauna.com)
85 points by zenithm 10y ago|68 comments
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by zenithm 10y ago
Calling stored procedures microservices always makes me laugh.