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Is this in memory like bdb? It says it uses http and capnproto which would indicate that it's not in memory.



Looks like they switched to gRPC and removed Cap'n Proto in late 2016 / early 2017, but never updated the web page.

https://github.com/BTrDB/btrdb-server/commit/23fda10224bea80...

https://github.com/BTrDB/btrdb-server/commit/7bb3c8d39b0954e...

I'm unable to find any public discussion about this change or its motivations. Oh well.


That's an interesting choice for a system intended to be high performance. Go's GRPC implementation has been suffering from extremely high resource usage due to https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/1455




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