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		cowsandmilk on Dec 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TerarkDB, ByteDance's RocksDB replacement It is perfectly in line with open source philosophy to be able to fork a project and have control over my fork. Especially given 2 where they have different goals from upstream.

ssakamoto on Dec 23, 2020 [–]

No necessarily true in this case. They are compatible and it's merely a performance improvements from the code.

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