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by sitkack 2016 days ago
https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv is an offshot of a project from ScyllaDB.
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Bit of a nitpick, but from what I understand they were making osv and pivoted to ScyllaDB, correct?
I only know what the readme says.

> OSv was originally designed and implemented by Cloudius Systems (now ScyllaDB) however currently it is being maintained and enhanced by a small community of volunteers.

Yeah that doesn't sound conclusive in either direction -- not clear if they made this on the way to ScyllaDB. I took another look just in case and found a source[0]:

> After much research into the market and technology, in mid-2014 the team decided to pivot away from OSv (still a live project). Instead they decided to embrace the Cassandra architecture but rewrite it from scratch in native code with all of the know-how of years of kernel/hypervisor coding. This would become the Scylla database.

[0]: https://www.scylladb.com/company/the-scylla-story/

Correct. OSv came first, and then Seastar + Scylla.