[HN Gopher] Jepsen testing rqlite, the distributed database buil...
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       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)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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]:
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         | > Limitations
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         | > 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?
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         | [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.
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         | https://github.com/wildarch/jepsen.rqlite
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         | (To be clear, I wasn't involved with this testing, I just heard
         | about it today and found it interesting)
        
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