Distributed Databases

“Interestingly, when you have a distributed database, you actually have a single point of failure, and now we don't have a single point of failure for any, or every customer has a single point of failure with backups, of course, but you can't, like, take out ou…”

“What you require is some initial handholding with your customers, because they're still thinking on old relational paradigms, and when I say relational, that's Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, those kind of things. And you got to get them transitioned into this new…”

“You see a lot of the sort of distributed databases that currently exist attempting to sort of retrofit their database with distributed transactions. It's very difficult to do that post hoc.”