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ParticleDB 1.1.4
Jepsen testing uncovered 96 bugs in ParticleDB 1.1.4, ranging from catastrophic data loss and transaction errors to protocol crashes.
What: Security researcher Kyle Kingsbury found severe issues in ParticleDB, a Rust-based database by Orkes. Problems included silently ignored SQL constraints, primary key duplication, and transactional deadlocks that persisted even in single-node, healthy deployments.
Why it matters: This highlights the risks of building proprietary database engines, particularly when claiming ACID compliance without undergoing independent, rigorous validation of core transactional guarantees.
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- Jepsen: An industry-standard library and process for testing distributed systems for consistency and partition tolerance.
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