GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized (Changelog Interviews #236)

Mark Nadal joined the show to talk about his hacker story and his venture backed open source datastore project called GunDB — a realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine. We talked about the details behind this database, how Mark secured funding, why yet another datastore, who’s using the database, how Mark plans to sustain this project through products and services, his thoughts on the RethinkDB postmortem and more.

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Featuring:

• Mark Nadal – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this show on GitHub
• The Changelog #201: Why SQLite Succeeded as a Database
• GunDB Homepage
• GunDB on GitHub
• GunDB on Patreon
• GubDB todo app tutorial
• Neo4j
• Firebase
• BoostVC
• Tim Draper on angel.co
• DFJ
• Why RethinkDB Failed
• Comparisons of popular DBs (thanks Anzumana!)

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