Category: Database, Data, Docker

New York-based startup Authzed has released an open source version of Google’s Zanzibar, the consistent, global authorization system. Authzed is a commercial implementation of Zanzibar, presented as a permissions-as-a-service company. Its version, called SpiceDB, is an open source implementation of Zanzibar in the same way CockroachDB is an open source implementation of Spanner.

And the way that we chose to do it, it was very similar to what a lot of developers do today, which is to store relationships in their database, and then interpret those relationships using their source code,” he said.

Google’s Zanzibar paper was published in 2019, yet there’s been a bit of new interest in it of late.

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