amark/gun on Hacker News — Hacker GitHub

…with this article, despite being somebody who has written a "fancy" popular database system ( https://github.com/amark/gun ). SQLite is good enough for pretty much everything, just use it!!!

comment by marknadal · 2018-05-04 · in We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (2016)

…time learning all sorts of things, and now it is one of the most popular databases out there ( https://github.com/amark/gun ) and I encourage others to try (if they have time) building one themselves!

comment by marknadal · 2018-05-04 · in Never Write Your Own Database (2017)

…- Redis (competitor) https://redis.io/topics/benchmarks - GUN (ours) https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2... - Fauna (competitor) https://fauna.com/enterprise#Scalability - VoltDB (competitor) https://ww

comment by marknadal · 2018-05-04 · in FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in

…docs for the End-to-End Encryption library (a wrapper around the Browser's Native WebCrypto API) https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/SEA

comment by marknadal · 2018-04-22 · in Can Facebook be replaced? Let’s invest $100,000

I just learned of the gun, https://github.com/amark/gun project from a downthread post. I was kind of surprised that it didn’t exist and had some really janky sql+git stuff.

comment by prepend · 2018-04-21 · in Fluree DB – A scalable blockchain database

This sounds a lot like (full disclosure: mine) https://github.com/amark/gun ? How do you compare? - Except ours is Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) and ranked #2 on GitHub in Blockchain and Cryptography https://github.com/topics/blockchain -…

comment by marknadal · 2018-04-21 · in Fluree DB – A scalable blockchain database

…like with email centralizing into gmail. However, IPFS, Scuttlebutt, GUN (full disclosure: mine -> https://github.com/amark/gun ), Beaker, etc. don't have this problem. Most of these, though, are tools for building decentralized apps, not…

comment by marknadal · 2018-04-05 · in Decentralization Dilemma

their project name is gun: https://github.com/amark/gun

comment by xumingmingv · 2018-03-08 · in Ask HN: If you've used a graph database, would you use it again?

Likely they're referring to https://github.com/amark/gun , which they refer to earlier. amark is Mark Nadal.

comment by grzm · 2018-03-08 · in Ask HN: If you've used a graph database, would you use it again?

…it to HackerNews in early 2014. It was a huge success. Since then, we've gotten 7.5K+ stars ( https://github.com/amark/gun ), raised venture capital money, and introduced decentralized cryptographically secure user blockchains, and a ton…

comment by marknadal · 2018-03-08 · in Ask HN: If you've used a graph database, would you use it again?

…part of our system for free, very openly licensed as MIT/ZLIB/Apache2. Check it out, 7.5K+ stars - https://github.com/amark/gun , we view clustering/availability as a core necessary feature of any database and not some "optional" or…

comment by marknadal · 2018-03-07 · in Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB

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Show HN: If IPFS and Firebase Had a Lovechild

story by marknadal · 2018-03-07 · 1 comment

Or add realtime updates to IPFS, Beaker, or Blockstack using a P2P/decentralized Firebase: https://github.com/amark/gun IPFS + Firebase = Lovechild ^

comment by marknadal · 2018-03-05 · in Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

Try https://github.com/amark/gun , it is a popular (~7.5K stars) truly open source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache 2) database that has Firebase like features (realtime sync) plus a lot more, like graph/table/document/relational data and a…

comment by marknadal · 2018-03-02 · in How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS

…And more! Note, this is not using Ethereum, but our decentralized tool: https://github.com/amark/gun , and here is a 4 minute and 40 LOC interactive coding tutorial that shows you how to get started: https://scrimba.com/c/c2gBgt4

comment by marknadal · 2018-02-19 · in Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

…think / expect. We had similar experience when we worked to get our system 25X faster than Redis: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2...

comment by marknadal · 2018-02-17 · in Performance debugging: from 1.3X slower to 48X faster than Apache Kafka

…of cash to dole out? At the same time, we already have people building P2P dApps with our system ( https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/auth ), you know, the ones that Ethereum/Dfinity/etc. can only dream of doing even after they hit their…

comment by marknadal · 2018-02-17 · in ICO startups band together to create $100M grant fund for Ethereum projects

…of all the world. We've implemented observable/FRP/chain-reaction programming as the default API in https://github.com/amark/gun , it is really quite pleasant language abstraction. However, FRP/etc. hasn't quite hit "mainstream" hype yet,…

comment by marknadal · 2018-02-15 · in JavaScript Promises Discussion: Make Them Monadic? (2013)

…structure and have released an alpha of it with the Radix Storage Engine (RSE) in the main repo: https://github.com/amark/gun Let me know if you need help with any/all of that, or more links/resources (docs are somewhat scarce on it…

comment by marknadal · 2018-02-15 · in Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture

…hard and correctness is a necessary tradeoff from performance. Other systems, like Cassandra, us ( https://github.com/amark/gun ), Couch/Pouch, etc. are all in the Master-Master camp, and thus AP not CP. Our argument is that while P holds,…

comment by marknadal · 2018-02-07 · in Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs

…into proofs that can client-side only decrypt public/private keypairs. For an example, see: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/auth

comment by marknadal · 2018-02-04 · in Best practices for user account, authorization and password management

…here https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT/blob/master/Readme.MD (disclaimer: I'm the author of https://github.com/amark/gun , which is one of the listed options). The StatusPage link is sparse on info, anybody know how it works…

comment by marknadal · 2018-01-31 · in Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS

Wow, point for point this is what we've built at gun ( https://github.com/amark/gun ). - You only store the data you are subscribed to, which if it is your data, it is automatically stored in localStorage and if you run a…

comment by marknadal · 2018-01-31 · in Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web

As an alternative, we've worked really hard on making E2E key management super easy: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/auth It is P2P not federated though, and the UI might be worse or better depending on your tastes. ;)

comment by marknadal · 2018-01-29 · in Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im

…Feross, who I know) have made comparisons of Datomic to gun, which I have made open source: https://github.com/amark/gun they're based on very similar principles and architecture of functional reactive programming (elm and eve are also in…

comment by marknadal · 2018-01-17 · in Datomic Cloud

…built on CRDT primitives for doing P2P apps that are end-to-end encrypted. ~7K stars on GitHub: https://github.com/amark/gun It can do 20M reads/sec, 20K writes/sec, and 2K sync/sec (verified table inserts across 4 network hops). It's like…

comment by marknadal · 2017-12-31 · in Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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GUN v0.9.5 Release – A Decentralized CRDT Graph Database

story by marknadal · 2017-12-29 · 0 comments

…are covered pretty well in the article, but CRDTs are also a must for most projects: https://github.com/amark/gun . The article seemed to mix in some blockchain/cryptocurrency projects as well, but seemed out of place (for instance, if…

comment by marknadal · 2017-12-26 · in Decentralization Roundup for 2017

…using the Web Crypto API (it is what we switched over to, for our P2P cryptographic user accounts: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/auth ) to reduce dependency on the server. You can use the `integrity` attribute to help out with this,…

comment by marknadal · 2017-12-18 · in Show HN: Darkwire.io – instant encrypted web chat (Socket.io and Web Crypto API)

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Show HN: GUN v0.9.3 – Easy Decentralized Cryptographic User Accounts

story by marknadal · 2017-12-16 · 0 comments

…CRDTs be implemented on top in just a few lines of code (take this example, of a counter CRDT: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/snippets-(v0.3.x)#counter ).

comment by marknadal · 2017-12-10 · in Decentralized Web Primer

…CRDTs. They have a research page on this: https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT One of them is us ( https://github.com/amark/gun ), David reached out the other week, now we're trying to find time to discuss with Juan how to best integrate.

comment by marknadal · 2017-12-09 · in Decentralized Web Primer

…did a talk on how to port gun into a new language, so I'm hoping some contributors could help out: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/porting-gun Thanks for asking! Definitely a hard one, any other issues we need to address still, that I…

comment by marknadal · 2017-11-29 · in AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities

…mesh network data transmission in P2P environments. It is MIT/ZLIB/Apache2 Open Source licensed: https://github.com/amark/gun I explain how the P2P logic works in this tech talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCPRY-9hkc&t=3s We also…

comment by marknadal · 2017-11-28 · in Meshkit

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GUN v0.9.x Announced – Pre-V1.0, Radix Storage Engine, P2P Encryption, and More

story by marknadal · 2017-11-21 · 0 comments

…Turns out the math/algorithm isn't too hard! Less than 50LOC for full implementation: https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/nts.js I recommend you have fun and challenge yourself to solve it first before looking at the code! It made me…

comment by marknadal · 2017-11-14 · in Determinism in League of Legends: Unified Clock

…I know from stats) the most popular CRDT-based data sync (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2 licensed, 6.6K+ stars, https://github.com/amark/gun ). Usually I'm pretty skeptical of most systems, but I'm rather particularly impressed with yours. I also do not…

comment by marknadal · 2017-11-04 · in PeerPad – A realtime P2P collaborative editing tool powered by IPFS

…so naturally I found it - although I was bummed it wasn't about gun (I'm the author of the popular https://github.com/amark/gun MIT licensed graph database) just the expression. But since I now have you, you mention that "make reactive all…

comment by marknadal · 2017-11-04 · in Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?

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GUN 0.8.9 – P2P Graph Database, E2EE Crypto Users, Realtime GraphQL Queries

story by marknadal · 2017-10-31 · 0 comments

…on? I know some people at Riak/Basho who are now at MIT, they are helping us formalize our CRDT ( https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/Conflict-Resolution-with-G... ). We were chatting just last night and he said that Riak actually lacked…

comment by marknadal · 2017-10-18 · in Pure Operation-Based Replicated Data Types

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Why Richard Stallman Is Wrong. Web Crypto and P2P Systems

story by marknadal · 2017-10-13 · 4 comments

…that fairly well, but not for highly mutable data (versus large scientific files). Meanwhile we ( https://github.com/amark/gun ) tackled that problem first, because it seems like CRDTs are the most relevant for killing traditional…

comment by marknadal · 2017-10-13 · in Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker

We're a popular alternative, https://github.com/amark/gun Some cool differences: - MIT/ZLIB/Apache2 licensed. - Graph data structures (document, key value, tables, relations, and more!) - Decentralized like IPFS! - Alpha prototype for…

comment by marknadal · 2017-10-03 · in Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps

…months), and Gun doesn't even handle unsubscribe-on-unmount in either its official React examples https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/examples/react/src/... or in graphql-gun https://github.com/brysgo/graphql-gun/blob/master/react/inde…

comment by btown · 2017-09-27 · in Meteor allow/deny vulnerability disclosure

…still no better way in 2017", RethinkDB's Horizon ( http://horizon.io/ ) and our tool, GUN ( https://github.com/amark/gun ), seriously contest that fact. For instance, - You get realtime data sync out of the box with an infrastructure you…

comment by marknadal · 2017-09-26 · in Meteor allow/deny vulnerability disclosure

Lol. I opened a random src-file and started to wonder wtf this is. Source: https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/src/state.js

comment by dsun180 · 2017-08-09 · in Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web

Has anyone here used gun extensively? https://github.com/amark/gun it seems to position itself as a competitor to firebase, and wouldn't have many of the issues mentioned in the OP

comment by daurnimator · 2017-08-09 · in Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web

…only syncs partial subsets of the data you request (rather than the whole thing), try checking out https://github.com/amark/gun (disclosure: I build it). However Postgres is probably the best database choice out there right now, so you…

comment by marknadal · 2017-08-08 · in CouchDB 2.1.0

…prototype demo, and watch our 1 minute animated explainers on cryptography, check out this link: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/auth (Note: All our code is MIT/ZLIB/Apache2 and open for auditing).

comment by marknadal · 2017-06-29 · in ZeroKit for Realm: Easy End-To-End Encryption

…very well worded. That is exactly what I'm trying to do with my own system, for anybody curious: https://github.com/amark/gun (MIT / ZLIB / Apache 2 licensed).

comment by marknadal · 2017-06-28 · in CAP: Don't settle for eventual consistency