Good post! May sound more credible if you have mentioned that YugaByte started as a fork of Apache Kudu and some of the design decisions and technical challenges that you mention were addressed by the code that was already there before your fork.
I am the CTO/Founder of YugaByte and author of the above post. Thanks for your comments, glad you liked the post! You make a great point about YugaByte DB using Apache Kudu to start out, but wanted to clarify a few things.
* This is a post about our architectural decisions in building a distributed SQL database, and less so about how we actually implement it. Hence there is no mention of any starting points as far as the codebase.
* Also, we have used the RocksDB and PostgreSQL codebases in their entirety in addition to Apache Kudu, and make no secret of this fact (https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/architecture/concepts/ackno...).
Incredible work. And supporting full postgresql.
This does sound a lot like a marketing post. But me no cares. This is pretty awesome I'm rarely this hyped for a technology.
Funnily enough, all what I would call "NoSQL papers" are very well known, yet F5 is hardly ever talked about. As if some people would not like to admit they might have been wrong ;-)
What do you mean by this? There are lots of examples of distributed databases.
regarding the tone of the post, we are always open to feedback on how we can do better. let us know through any means possible incl. github and slack.