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Are there any other databases that can do what you're describing here?



HyperDex provides scalable and high-performance transactions. While it is strongly (not eventually) consistent, the underlying technique we use to achieve atomicity of transactions is reminiscent of this approach.

On a related note, our experience is that a tightly implemented database can be much faster than a typical eventually consistent database. It would be great to see performance comparisons from TreodeDB.


That's cool. Indeed, it does look like one could use HypderDex's transactions and cond_put to make something close the batch write described in this post.

However, I don't see the part about Lamport clocks in HyperDex's API. Maybe one could implement that in a layer on top. The technique in the post allows a client to know if the values in its cache satisfy application invariants, even invariants that relate multiple rows. The Lamport clocks are key to making that part work.

I would very much like to provide performance numbers, and Jepsen results, and more for TreodeDB. Along that line though, I'm looking for contributors (or even a co-founder). I've gotten it this far on my own, but I really need help.


Not that I'm aware of.

CockroachDB and FoundationDB provide scalable and reliable transactions. But they don't offer this interface.

Couchbase has conditional writes, but not batch writes.

I think TreodeDB is the first to bring these things together this way.




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