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vitess
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A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go
With Vitess likely merging a lot of its binaries into a single unified binary: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/7471#issuecomment-...
... it would be a wild future if Vitess replaced the underlying MySQL engine with this as long as the performance is good enough.
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The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints
Thank you for the compliment!
We recently started adding support for CTEs in Vitess! You can check out https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/14321 if you want to see some technical details of the implementation.
For now, we have added preliminary support by converting them to derived tables internally, but we believe that we need to make CTEs first-class citizens themselves of query planning. Once we make that change, we can look towards supporting recursive CTEs.
This however will take some time, but then, all good things do!
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Vitess 18
Why would it be a Google project? https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
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PlanetScale Scaler Pro
This is great news. I strolled around https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/12967.
Are there any public discussions of more trade-offs vitess has to make to enable fks?
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What is the best database technology to use to create a new chat app today?
MySQL + Vitess I noticed Slack gets by using MySQL because they're using Vites. From Slack's post (https://slack.engineering/scaling-datastores-at-slack-with-vitess/) it seems like they choose Vites because it facilitated a smooth transition because it's built on top of MySQL.
- Vitess – Scalable. Reliable. MySQL-Compatible. Cloud-Native. Database
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How can I avoid duplicate API calls in a serverless infra?
This sounds very similar to the connection pooling done by vitess https://vitess.io/.
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Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf]
https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/12967
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Want to avoid MySQL but find PlanetScale really appealing
A lot of this is possible thanks to the magic of Vitess.
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Vitess 16
"Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL."
https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
Tile38
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Show HN: TG – Fast geometry library in C
[2] https://github.com/tidwall/tile38
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PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
Experimental format to help readability of a long rant:
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According to the OP, there's a "terrifying tale of VACUUM in PostgreSQL," dating back to "a historical artifact that traces its roots back to the Berkeley Postgres project." (1986?)
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Maybe the whole idea of "use X, it has been battle-tested for [TIME], is robust, all the bugs have been and keep being fixed," etc., should not really be that attractive or realistic for at least a large subset of projects.
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In the case of Postgres, on top of piles of "historic code" and cruft, there's the fact that each user of Postgres installs and runs a huge software artifact with hundreds or even thousands of features and dependencies, of which every particular user may only use a tiny subset.
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In Kleppmann's DDOA [1], after explaining why the declarative SQL language is "better," he writes: "in databases, declarative query languages like SQL turned out to be much better than imperative query APIs." I find this footnote to the paragraph a bit ironic: "IMS and CODASYL both used imperative query APIs. Applications typically used COBOL code to iterate over records in the database, one record at a time." So, SQL was better than CODASYL and COBOL in a number of ways... big surprise?
Postgres' own PL/pgSQL [2] is a language that (I imagine) most people would rather NOT use: hence a bunch of alternatives, including PL/v8, on its own a huge mass of additional complexity. SQL is definitely "COBOLESQUE" itself.
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Could we come up with something more minimal than SQL and looking less like COBOL? (Hopefully also getting rid of ORMs in the process). Also, I have found inspiring to see some people creating databases for themselves. Perhaps not a bad idea for small applications? For instance, I found BuntDB [3], which the developer seems to be using to run his own business [4]. Also, HYTRADBOI? :-) [5].
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A usual objection to use anything other than a stablished relational DB is "creating a database is too difficult for the average programmer." How about debugging PostgreSQL issues, developing new storage engines for it, or even building expertise on how to set up the instances properly and keep it alive and performant? Is that easier?
I personally feel more capable of implementing a small, well-tested, problem-specific, small implementation of a B-Tree than learning how to develop Postgres extensions, become an expert in its configuration and internals, or debug its many issues.
Another common opinion is "SQL is easy to use for non-programmers." But every person that knows SQL had to learn it somehow. I'm 100% confident that anyone able to learn SQL should be able to learn a simple, domain-specific, programming language designed for querying DBs. And how many of these people that are not able to program imperatively would be able to read a SQL EXPLAIN output and fix deficient queries? If they can, that supports even more the idea that they should be able to learn something different than SQL.
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1: https://dataintensive.net/
2: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/plpgsql-examples.html
3: https://github.com/tidwall/buntdb
4: https://tile38.com/
5: https://www.hytradboi.com/
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Your Data Fits in RAM
I actually worked on a project that did this. We used a database called "Tile38" [1] which used an R-Tree to make geospatial queries speedy. It was pretty good.
Our dataset was ~150 GiB, I think? All in RAM. Took a while to start the server, as it all came off disk. Could have been faster. (It borrowed Redis's query language, and its storage was just "store the commands the recreate the DB, literally", IIRC. Dead simple, but a lot of slack/wasted space there.)
Overall not a bad database. Latency serving out of RAM was, as one should/would expect, very speedy!
[1]: https://tile38.com/
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Redcon - Redis compatible server framework for Rust
I ported it from Go and use it for my Tile38 project.
- Tile38 - a geolocation data store, spatial index, and realtime geofence
- Path hints for B-trees can bring a performance increase of 150% – 300%
- How do I implement push notifications on a 10 mile radius from a certain user?
What are some alternatives?
tidb - TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial
go-mysql-elasticsearch - Sync MySQL data into elasticsearch
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
ledisdb - A high performance NoSQL Database Server powered by Go
cockroach - CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
goleveldb - LevelDB key/value database in Go.
citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
groupcache - groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
kingshard - A high-performance MySQL proxy
InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics