Show HN: Okdb – OT Simplified

37 points by alexzender 5 years ago | 9 comments

jdc 5 years ago |

https://okdb.io/p/pricing says there's a BSD licensed community edition.

Anyone know where the source code is hosted?

alexzender 5 years ago | |

We haven't published the sources yet, it will appear on https://github.com/okdb-io soon.

bsergio 5 years ago |

Looks like Operational Transformation is getting popular on HN lately, I have a question on another topic though - wondering how would you connect such systems to an existing infrastructure and especially authentication, to enforce user permissions/roles, etc.

alexzender 5 years ago | |

Yes, I hope that realtime apps will be our future :)

Regarding integration - okdb provides hooks, so that you can implement custom authentication/verification, e.g. verify JWT token. For details, have a look at the docs here - https://okdb.io/p/docs/api/server#s5.1

Happy to answer any other questions

markvitals 5 years ago |

Why did you choose to use Postgres firsthand as opposed to other SQL/NoSQL solutions?

alexzender 5 years ago | |

Postgres has advanced dramatically in last years and is mostly a default choice in our consulting projects. Take, for example native support for row-level security - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/ddl-rowsecurity.html

However, we are going to support other databases like Mongo and MySQL.

alexzender 5 years ago |

Hi HN, I'm the author of okdb - wrote it to make it easier to create collaborative apps.

zyang 5 years ago |

sharedb + postgres?

alexzender 5 years ago | |

yes, we forked and customized sharedb under the hood, more databases and out-of-the-box functions for collaboration are in progress.