Interesting but the devil is in the details with systems like this and the article doesn't go into much of that.

I do like the decision to separate AtlasDB from the underlying K/V store.

Agreed on where the devil resides. I'm working on a follow up post that delves into that detail - it should be published in the next few weeks.

(I'm the author of that post)

Just to point it out .. Palantir historically has a strong CIA link... funding by In-Q-Tel, big data/surveillance focus with government clients, anti-Wikileaks work on behalf of Bank of America and a link to HBGary. Not an ethical organization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

Described by Wired as a secretive data mining software firm involved in a convoluted plot to bring down Wikileaks.

This thread is not unlike discussing the material properties of building components with a prison architect.

(Edit: Why the downvote? Intelligent people are ethically aware of their actions and find context meaningful. Nobody else mentioned this reality of the organization. If you disagree, please do so in writing.)

So is this thing open source or otherwise available?

Sounds like post written for the corporate/gov/CIO crowd, less so for HNers (NoSQL?). Which makes sense.

Reminded me of Storehaus [1] but taken further. curious to see what K/V drivers they've written so far.

https://github.com/twitter/storehaus

whether it is interesting or not depends on whether the main components - lock, transaction, timestamp servers - are distributed or single-node. I mean having non-distributed lock server is just not interesting today.

Is there code to look at?