"PostgreSQL and Databricks founders join forces for DBOS to create a new type of operating system"
Funny, I was just watching a video earlier today about how Postgres has expanded from a database system to a complete backend stack.
But here, they're talking about something different.
"Today DBOS announced that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding as well as the launch of its first product, DBOS Cloud, which provides a new type of cloud-native operating system for cloud application deployment."
"Today, a database is a type of application that runs on top of an operating system, which in the cloud is often Linux. DBOS takes a radically different approach to operating systems by running the operating system on top of a high-performance database."
"Operating system services, such as messages, scheduling and file operations, those are all written in SQL on top of a very high-performance OLTP DBMS [Online Transaction Processing Database Management System]."
"Taking aim at Linux and the Kubernetes container orchestration system and the etcd key value store, they say."
This isn't the first time I've heard of someone saying a database should be at the heart of an operating system. But it's the first time I've heard of anyone making a serious attempt to do it.
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