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citus
- SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL
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Figma's Databases team lived to tell the scale
I see they don't mention Citus (https://github.com/citusdata/citus), which is already a fairly mature native Postgres extension. From the details given in the article, in sounds like they just reimplemented it.
I wonder if they were unaware of it or disregarded it for a reason —I currently am in a similar situation as the one described in the blog, trying to shard a massive Postgres DB.
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PostgreSQL Is Enough
It is possible, if you pay for it. You can do Multi-AZ Clustered Instances in RDS, where you get the benefits of Multi-AZ failover with traffic sharing.
If you can run your own infra – at least on an EC2 level – you can do things like Citus [0] for Postgres, which is about as close to "just add database nodes" as you'll get.
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Vitess 18
So while searching for something like this for postgres I came across citus. Any one know how that stacks up?
- Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
- Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres
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Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL
Not really. It's comparable to a regular Postgres upgrade.
But you can screw it up - see https://github.com/citusdata/citus/discussions/6934
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Opinions and Suggestions for PostgreSQL Extension under Development
What about getting in touch with commercial organisations that have products/services based on PostgreSQL? For example Timescale, EDB, and Citus Data, or really any hosting provider that offers a managed PostgreSQL service.
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Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?
Friends don't let their friends choose Mysql :)
A super long time ago (decades) when I was using Oracle regularly I had to make a decision on which way to go. Although Mysql then had the mindshare I thought that Postgres was more similar to Oracle, more standards compliant, and more of a real enterprise type of DB. The rumor was also that Postgres was heavier than MySQL. Too many horror stories of lost data (MyIsam), bad transactions (MyIsam lacks transaction integrity), and the number of Mysql gotchas being a really long list influenced me.
In time I actually found out that I had underestimated one of the most important attributes of Postgres that was a huge strength over Mysql: the power of community. Because Postgres has a really superb community that can be found on Libera Chat and elsewhere, and they are very willing to help out, I think Postgres has a huge advantage over Mysql. RhodiumToad [Andrew Gierth] https://github.com/RhodiumToad & davidfetter [David Fetter] https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfetter are incredibly helpful folks.
I don't know that Postgres' licensing made a huge difference or not but my perception is that there are a ton of 3rd party products based on Postgres but customized to specific DB needs because of the more liberalness of the PG license which is MIT/BSD derived https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/
Some of the PG based 3rd party DBs:
Enterprise DB https://www.enterprisedb.com/ - general purpose PG with some variants
Greenplum https://greenplum.org/ - Data warehousing
Crunchydata https://www.crunchydata.com/products/hardened-postgres - high security Postgres for regulated environments
Citus https://www.citusdata.com - Distributed DB & Columnar
Timescale https://www.timescale.com/
Why Choose PG today?
If you want better ACID: Postgres
If you want more compliant SQL: Postgres
If you want more customizability to a variety of use-cases: Postgres using a variant
If you want the flexibility of using NOSQL at times: Postgres
If you want more product knowledge reusability for other backend products: Postgres
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Can someone share experience configuring Highly Available PgSQL?
Citus - Citus is very much alive and is a thriving open-source and commercial product, but is not HA on its own. It is essentially distributed/sharded Postgres.
dqlite
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Marmot: Multi-writer distributed SQLite based on NATS
If you're interested in this, here are some related projects that all take slightly different approaches:
- LiteSync directly competes with Marmot and supports DDL sync, but is closed source commercial (similar to SQLite EE): https://litesync.io
- dqlite is Canonical's distributed SQLite that depends on c-raft and kernel-level async I/O: https://dqlite.io
- cr-sqlite is a Rust-based loadable extension that adds CRDT changeset generation and reconciliation to SQLite: https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite
Slightly related but not really (no multi writer, no C-level SQLite API or other restrictions):
- comdb2 (Bloombergs multi-homed RDMS using SQLite as the frontend)
- rqlite: RDMS with HTTP API and SQLite as the storage engine, used for replication and strong consistency (does not scale writes)
- litestream/LiteFS: disaster recovery replication
- liteserver: active read-only replication (predecessor of LiteSync)
- I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite
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SQLite performance tuning: concurrent reads, multiple GBs and 100k SELECTs/s
I'd be curious for a similar tuning with Dqlite: https://github.com/canonical/dqlite
- Strong Consistency with Raft and SQLite
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9 years of open-source database development: reviewing the designs
Anyone knows how the DB this is about, https://rqlite.io/, compares with https://dqlite.io/ by Canonical (both seem to be distributed versions of sqlite)?
- SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
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Transcending Posix: The End of an Era?
For folks' context, the new tool that's being discussed in the thread mentioned by the parent here is litefs [0], as well as which you can also look at rqlite [1] and dqlite [2], which all provide different trade-offs (e.g. rqlite is 'more strongly consistent' than litefs).
[0]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
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SQLite is not a toy database
I presume you're familiar with https://github.com/canonical/dqlite (made by my employer) and https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite (unrelated)? How will mvsqlite compare to those?
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GitDB, a distributed embeddable database on top of Git
Check out dqlite, it's sqlite but with a raft consensus to distribute changes through a log: https://dqlite.io/ You can link it in as a library too, it sounds like exactly what you want.
- Ask HN: Free and open source distributed database written in C++ or C
What are some alternatives?
rqlite - The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite.
Greenplum - Greenplum Database - Massively Parallel PostgreSQL for Analytics. An open-source massively parallel data platform for analytics, machine learning and AI.
yugabyte-db - YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
vitess - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
kine - Run Kubernetes on MySQL, Postgres, sqlite, dqlite, not etcd.
TimescaleDB - An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.
dbt-core - dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
stolon - PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability and more.
pg_auto_failover - Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability
PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL - A cloud-native database based on PostgreSQL developed by Alibaba Cloud.
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.
better-sqlite3 - The fastest and simplest library for SQLite3 in Node.js.