DBOS Introduced
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Venture Beat ☛ PostgreSQL and Databricks founders join forces for DBOS to create a new type of operating system
DBOS was developed to address the challenges of managing the massive state of modern operating systems.
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Silicon Angle ☛ DBOS nabs $8.5M to challenge GNU/Linux with a database-powered operating system
DBOS Inc., a new startup led by prominent computer scientists, launched today with $8.5 million in seed funding and an operating system designed to challenge Linux. Engine Ventures led the investment. Construct Capital, Sinewave and Gutbrain Ventures participated as well.
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The Next Platform ☛ The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System [Ed: The "Clown" is an illusion; no such thing exists, it's just a metaphor]
Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems.
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Stonebraker says that the spark for the idea for DBOS, which is short for database operating system, came when he was listening to a talk by Zacharia, who among other things was the creator of the Spark in-memory database while at the AMPLab at the University of California Berkeley and the co-founder and chief technology officer of Databricks, which has commercialized Spark.
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More but late coverage:
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'What if the operating system is the problem': Linux was never created for the cloud — so engineers developed DBOS, a new operating system that is part OS, part database
Michael Stonebraker has developed several influential database management systems over the years, including Ingres, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB. Matei Zaharia is the creator of Apache Spark and co-founder and CTO of Databricks.
Working with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, the pair have created a revolutionary prototype operating system called DBOS - DataBase OS.
The concept of DBOS was born three years ago when Stonebraker realized that the state an operating system must maintain (files, processes, threads, messages and so on) has grown exponentially since the early days of Unix. This, coupled with the limitations of Linux in the current technological landscape, sparked the idea of running the OS on top of a database.
ZDNet:
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Linux was never made for the cloud, but DBOS is - and you can try it for free
For years, Linux has been responsible for powering servers in the cloud, but given how the cloud has grown exponentially, and that Linux wasn't designed specifically for the cloud, it became clear that something had to change.
That change might come by way of Michael Stonebraker (Ingres, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB) and Matei Zaharia (Apache Spark and co-founder/CTO of Databrisk) who have worked with a team from MIT to create a revolutionary operating system called DBOS, aka DataBase OS.
Very late coverage:
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Transactional Serverless Computing: PostgreSQL Creator Announces DBOS Cloud
The creators of DBOS have recently introduced DBOS Cloud, a transactional serverless application platform tailored for TypeScript developers. With all state information stored in a highly available DBMS, this new platform assures transactional serverless computing, offering reliable execution alongside so-called "time travel" capabilities.