[HN Gopher] Jepsen testing rqlite, the distributed database buil... ___________________________________________________________________ Jepsen testing rqlite, the distributed database built on Raft and SQLite Author : otoolep Score : 41 points Date : 2022-04-19 21:19 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | otoolep wrote: | rqlite author here, happy to answer any questions. Many thanks to | Nienke Eijsvogel, Ruben van Baarle and Daan de Graaf for | executing this testing. | | https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite | muxator wrote: | Not really related to TFA, but I had a look at the python | driver documentation and I was very surprised by this statement | [0]: | | > Limitations | | > Transactions are not supported | | Is there something I am badly misreading? How come is a so | fundamental feature not supported? Maybe it is just a | limitation in the python driver? | | [0] https://github.com/rqlite/pyrqlite#limitations= | Operyl wrote: | Hmm, perhaps a bit of confusion from the title. It sounds like | they ran the Jepsen suite of tests against rqlite, which is | great, but not done _by_ Jepsen / Kyle (https://jepsen.io). | Others have done this themselves too and that's fine, but half | the of the problem is correctly implementing the tests which has | been done incorrectly by others in the past. | otoolep wrote: | OK, how do you suggest I change the title? I'm open to a better | one. I'm used to the casual use of "Jepsen" for this type of | testing. But yes, there is also the case where Kyle does the | testing himself -- and this is _not_ that. | | Their implementation is up on GitHub, I'm sure they would be | interested in any feedback on it. | | https://github.com/wildarch/jepsen.rqlite | | (To be clear, I wasn't involved with this testing, I just heard | about it today and found it interesting) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-19 23:00 UTC)