Introducing Planck, a Document DB with Embedded Wasm Runtime (opens in new tab)

Last couple of years, since my early retirement, I’ve been experimenting with building a document database that has a wasm runtime embedded into it. And Planck, a document database with a wasm runtime baked in, is the result of that. The idea was simple. What if we eliminate the separate service layer and embed it into the database itself, where the data actually resides. I benchmarked it and found that it’s around 4.5x faster than node/express/mongo for an exactly similar workload. Planck sh...