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Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes

https://github.com/tonbo-io/tonbo
23•ethegwo•6d ago

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WilcoKruijer•6d ago
Sounds very interesting, but the README has me pondering the downsides. Is the latency very high? Are requests not immediately durable? Is it super expensive?
ethegwo•6d ago
Yes We'll provide a report to explain how we tradeoff these things, please stay tuned.
rubenvanwyk•1h ago
License does not yet exist? Hope it’s Apache 2.
niek_pas•50m ago
For some reason this post links to the dev branch on GitHub, if you switch to the main branch you will see the license file is indeed Apache 2.0.
rubenvanwyk•1h ago
How does it compare to https://slatedb.io/ ?

Seems similar ideas, although SlateDB seems a bit more lightweight and using Parquet as primitive (even using Arrow) might mean more compute-heavy on client-side?

spwa4•4m ago
This is so weird. If you're using this library

1) your serverless and edge runtime needs to have internet access, so it can contact anyone

2) you're obviously not going to be able to efficiently write to S3 while providing guarantees, so it'll be expensive

3) you're writing in rust, so you really care about correctness and efficiency

This seems like a contradiction. Why would you do this as opposed to hosting a redundant postgres on 2 Hetzner/OVH/... servers and writing to that?

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https://github.com/tonbo-io/tonbo
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