I was wondering how long it would take for HyperDex to get some traction on HN. While I haven't had immediate need to use it myself, I have several friends who attest that it is a lovely system. The article doesn't mention it, but it's wicked fast, outperforming Redis in many metrics.
Clearly the consistency is the big kicker though. So many systems are saying eventual consistency is "good enough." Clearly that can be fine for a SoLoMo app, but probably not for a medical system.
Lack of consistency guarantees in most systems available in the open is the exact reason why we created Arakoon: our usage scenarios (safekeeping metadata for large-scale storage systems, among others) simply don't allow for 'eventual consistency'. It's also available as free software, check it out at http://arakoon.org.
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I was wondering how long it would take for HyperDex to get some traction on HN. While I haven't had immediate need to use it myself, I have several friends who attest that it is a lovely system. The article doesn't mention it, but it's wicked fast, outperforming Redis in many metrics. Clearly the consistency is the big kicker though. So many systems are saying eventual consistency is "good enough." Clearly that can be fine for a SoLoMo app, but probably not for a medical system.
Lack of consistency guarantees in most systems available in the open is the exact reason why we created Arakoon: our usage scenarios (safekeeping metadata for large-scale storage systems, among others) simply don't allow for 'eventual consistency'. It's also available as free software, check it out at http://arakoon.org.