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by thisislife2·1y ago·view on hn ↗
Interesting - we've been hearing about a "database file system" for some time now, and it's exciting to see it popping up slowly. But DBOS still has a long way to go - runs only on AWS currently and you are limited to Typescript for development (which is a curious choice - any idea why?).

> DBOS will resist being on-prem and will resist being POSIX compliant, Stonebraker said ... They may also want things like support for Python and Java programming environments, and support for running in Azure and GCP, which will be determined in the future.

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BeOS had a database-based filesystem way back in the early 1990s.

It was slow and difficult to keep up to date. They swapped it out with BFS and the rest was history.

It's possible this will do better than Be's old database system, but this is not a novel idea.

In the article he says that DBs are now much faster.
People are also much happier these days to introduce a factor of 10 slowdown relative to what the hardware can natively support.
IBM big iron systems still use databases as file system.