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Herb: Multi-DC Replication Engine for Uber’s Schemaless Datastore (eng.uber.com)
26 points by bauerpl 2880 days ago
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damm 2880 days ago
Go ahead and downvote this; but where's the source?

Otherwise isn't this pointless bragging?

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takeda 2879 days ago
So according to this post they created geographically distributed, multi master (with a mesh topology) that is always consistent.

Either they created a holy grail of databases, or an opportunity to write a great Post-Mortem in the future.

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throwaway123402 2879 days ago
It's a little unclear from the article, but based on

> Since the system supports asynchronous replication, our data centers eventually become consistent. Writes are considered complete as soon as the remote data center acknowledges it.

I assume its eventually consistent (so AP).

I wish they compared why normal mysql async replication fails for them and they needed to build this though.

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thdxr 2879 days ago
Or it's just incredibly slow and not always available
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miohtama 2879 days ago
It is not pointless for Uber. Please read it as a job advertisement for scalable database experts.
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