2/ Log tree segments:
SlateDB can store multiple LSM trees in one DB. They all share the same WAL/MemTable. This allows you to keep data in separate trees, but share a transaction. It's similar (but not identical) to RocksDB's column families.
RFC: https://t.co/dmfTZcjrnI
DuckDB just released Quack: a client/server protocol over HTTP.
Any DuckDB can serve (quack_serve()), any DuckDB can attach to it.
DuckDB-Wasm included since it's plain HTTP on port 9494.
Some fun stuff :
- A browser tab talking directly to a DuckDB server somewhere on the internet
- Local-first apps with a remote target that speaks the exact same dialect
- Notebook-to-notebook query forwarding
Curious what people will build with this.
We've got a few ideas brewing at MotherDuck too :)
And while we're at it, can we finally retire the "DuckDB has no multi-writer support" take? There are plenty of options out there now, just depends how you want to slice and dice.
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