Comment by tudorg
7 hours ago
Because you mentioned Xata (I'm the author of that blog post, thanks for mentioning it), this is pretty similar to what we do at the high level, but we built our own storage system rather than relying on Ceph. The reason is scalability to many volumes and to lesser degree performance.
I'd say Homescale is closer to Xata than Planetscale, tbh :)
It was a good read. I also worked on a similar product that used zfs instead of Ceph.
Also, as you said, Homescale is a lot closer to Xata. It all started as a joke and the name stuck.