"Better" is a strong word without proven analysis or some kind of statistic, that honestly caught me off-guard as when you state that I expect something like a product like Bitbucket, obviously as you can imagine. Either way, cool project.
Hello HN, I'm the creator of TidesDB, it's an open-source, fast, embeddable key-value storage engine written in C. It supports ACID transactions, 8 language bindings, runs as a MariaDB storage engine (TideSQL), and can operate cloud-native on S3. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Hello hn, I’m Alex the creator of TidesDB and over the past few months I’ve been working on putting TidesDB to work inside MariaDB through a plugin which the project is labeled TideSQL.
The project has grown quite a lot where I’d like to share it.
The plugin allows for MariaDB to optimize writes; not leave resources on the table and optionally scale infinitely. In tpc-c benchmarks the plugin shows rather great numbers comparing to MyRocks and InnoDB, you can find this analysis on the TidesDB website.
I don’t feel that way at all. I’ve been maintaining open source storage systems for few years. I love it. Absolutely love it. I maintain TidesDB it’s a storage engine. I also have back pain but that doesn’t mean you can’t do what you love.
TidesDB is a storage engine, you use it to build databases. It's persistent and built on a log-structured-merge tree (LSM) with modern research incorporated such as