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Hi rekoros,

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...).

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I genuinely never thought I'd see a fully distributed db. This is the magic bullet people been looking for in terms of having a simple ish db compared to complex data layers.

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.

happy that you liked the post. as you could infer, this simplicity is by no means a magic bullet. there are always trade-offs depending on the database type you use as baseline for comparison. we highlight them here: https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/introduction/#what-are-the-...

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.

> "fully distributed db"

What do you mean by this? There are lots of examples of distributed databases.

AFAICT it is very far from supporting full Postgresql.

I always though it was one of the pursuit of Google but NoSQL was all the rage and I was never taken seriously ... until F5 that is.

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 ;-)

It's not talked about cause it's named F1 ;)

Yes ! Thanks for the correction.

Before you let the hyperbole train run it’s course there’s are many distributed databases out there. Vitess+MySQL which runs YouTube, CockroachDB, YugaByte, faunaDB, bedrockDB etc

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