eatonphil

Hey folks, this is the 7th book in a series of readings I run over Google Groups. There are about 1800 people in the group and 300-800 join each reading. While we often read books on database internal…

In their data modelling pages they mention you should break up rows into separate keys per column. Or separate keys per field in a document. This is indeed how many databases model rows on a distribut…

There are a lot of strict limits so AFAIK everyone uses FoundationDB for fast, consistent, highly-available metadata while doing replication/storage of actual data elsewhere (such as in S3). htt…

Hamburg is mentioned in the article but not shown on the map?

From the title I was hoping this would be a survey of databases using io_uring, since there've been quips on the internet (here, twitter, etc) that no one uses io_uring in production. In my brief…

Right, I'm not so familiar with it but from that page: > The replication mechanism is based on logical decoding and an earlier version of the pglogical extension provided for community by the …

That's right.

A bit of the history as I've been told by 2nd Quadrant/EDB people (my teammates): BDR1 [0] came first and was, and is, open source. pgactive is based on BDR1. BDR2 was a closed-source rewrit…

Why not read the WAL?

I guess I'm a little younger. For me it was Runescape and Maplestory. Played heavily in the summers from 2007-2009.

zserge is one of my favorite authors and programmers.