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		manigandham on Jan 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RethinkDB Postmortem > you start a fresh server, tell it some other server address to peer with, and it does the magic This is the one thing I ask of every database software, yet we still don't really have it. 90% of problems could be solved if there was a focus on the basics like easy startup, config and clustering.

flukus on Jan 19, 2017 [–]

SQL Server is almost that easy, but still doesn't handle schema changes well.

manigandham on Jan 19, 2017 | [–]

How so? Aerospike, ScyllaDB, Rethink, MemSQL, Redis are the only databases that get close to this.

SQL Server availability groups requires Windows Server Failover Clustering, which is not quick or easy.

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