RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax
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tosh today at 5:35 PM
afaiu this is a kdb-adjacent columnar runtime and query engine
think SIMD, morsels and so on ~ Clickhouse, DuckDB …
but more like a lisp-like vector language and execution engine at its core + allowing for numeric and analytics adjacent use-cases instead of the other way round
zcw100 today at 5:15 PM
I was just thinking yesterday that some of what these AI generated sites have exposed is just how vacuous and low information content a lot of websites have become. The difference is previously you could at least say, "hey, someone at least spent a little money to create this" now that cost is pretty much zero. I think the answer is to simply demand more from people who have real products. If you have a product, I want to see a screenshot. Even better a demo and I'm not hitting the "schedule a demo" button. Either you step up and demonstrate capability or you're going to get lost in the noise.
zX41ZdbW today at 5:26 PM
Let's add it to ClickBench: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/
AlotOfReading today at 5:25 PM
It's a little weird to truncate the history [0] of your open source project and lock the v1 commits in a separate repo with limited access [1]. Are the authors embarrassed of the commit history?
[0] https://github.com/RayforceDB/rayforce/pull/166
[1] https://github.com/RayforceDB/rayforce2/blob/master/README.m...
christoff12 today at 5:27 PM
The claim of "built for teams that measure latency in microseconds" is conflicted by the pseudo demo showing a simple query that takes 4 seconds. I could assume that this is slowed down for effect, but the glowing green label[1] tells me this is a "real engine run" so now I'm confused.
My core question is why would I use this instead of duckdb and writing SQL as God intended[2]?
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[1] A clear indication of AI generation
[2] This is a joke.
opem today at 4:48 PM
At this point, I see an AI generated site I quit.
this might be good stuff, but I'm not even interested anymore!
hnea3ekp5i today at 4:42 PM
The honesty is what makes it good
esafak today at 5:00 PM
A graph analytics database? Could you talk about the motivation, and competition?