TerminusDB isn’t just another graph database. It’s built for collaboration, with a branching model that lets teams clone, branch, and merge datasets the way developers manage code. That makes it a natural fit for analytics, ML pipelines, and application backends. The problem? Branching, committing, and merging generate heavy I/O. On ordinary volumes, collaboration slows down, replication lags, and backups compete with active work.
Simplyblock gives TerminusDB NVMe-over-TCP performance, zone-resilient volumes, and live scalability, ensuring data branching remains fast, consistent, and reliable.
TerminusDB Branching Pushes Storage to the Edge
Unlike traditional databases, TerminusDB doesn’t just query data — it versions it. Creating and merging branches involves writing large snapshots and keeping metadata synchronized. When storage lags, these operations drag out, making collaboration painful.
With simplyblock, these workflows get NVMe-backed throughput, keeping branching and merging smooth even as datasets scale.
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Step 1: Provision Volumes for Versioned Data
To make TerminusDB branching efficient, its data and commit logs should live on fast storage. With simplyblock, you can provision NVMe-over-TCP volumes in minutes.
sbctl pool create –name terminus-pool
sbctl volume create –pool terminus-pool –size 200Gi –name terminus-data
mkfs.ext4 /dev/simplyblock/terminus-data
mount /dev/simplyblock/terminus-data /var/lib/terminusdb
This ensures that every branch or snapshot runs on consistent, low-latency storage. For detailed instructions, check the setting up TerminusDB storage guide.
Step 2: Keep Branching and Merging Responsive
Branching in TerminusDB works like cloning a Git repository, but under the hood it requires heavy metadata and snapshot operations. On slow volumes, this can take minutes instead of seconds.
Simplyblock brings NVMe-grade performance to these operations, ensuring branching and merging feel instant. For organizations replacing older relational systems, it’s a better approach than the pain of legacy migrations — similar to moving from Amazon RDS to PostgreSQL.
Step 3: Protect Collaboration Without Slowing It
Versioned data needs frequent protection, but backup processes often clash with active workloads. In TerminusDB, this can mean developers waiting for merges while backups run.
Simplyblock eliminates the bottleneck. High-throughput volumes allow backups to run alongside live workloads without disrupting collaboration. This keeps projects moving, while infrastructure teams can focus on efficiency — including optimizing Kubernetes costs when TerminusDB runs containerized.
For more information on TerminusDB’s backup and recovery process, visit the Backup and Recovery guide.
Step 4: Scale Storage as Data Branches Multiply
Every new dataset, ML pipeline, or project branch expands TerminusDB storage needs. Static volumes can’t adapt quickly, forcing downtime or migrations.
With simplyblock, you can resize volumes on the fly:
sbctl volume resize –name terminus-data –size 500Gi
resize2fs /dev/simplyblock/terminus-data
This flexibility fits deployments running on Proxmox environments, where teams want enterprise-grade scalability without the overhead of complex SANs.
Step 5: Keep Collaborative Databases Running Everywhere
Collaboration doesn’t always happen in central data centers. TerminusDB is also used at the edge, in labs, and in distributed teams. But traditional storage tied to one zone or cloud can’t keep up.
Simplyblock’s zone-independent volumes support resilience across environments — including edge and air-gapped deployments. This ensures that whether your teams are global or working in disconnected setups, TerminusDB stays available.
Collaboration Needs Storage That Scales Like Git
TerminusDB redefines collaboration with database branching and merging, but its strengths push storage harder than traditional systems. Without fast and flexible volumes, the workflow slows down.
Simplyblock solves this by bringing NVMe performance, seamless scalability, and cross-environment durability to versioned data. For analytics teams, ML engineers, and collaborative developers, pairing TerminusDB with simplyblock means smoother branching, faster merges, and infrastructure that grows with every project.
Questions and Answers
Simplyblock accelerates TerminusDB branching by leveraging snapshots and clones. Developers can create branches instantly, reducing overhead and ensuring consistent performance when managing large datasets across collaborative projects and complex schema changes.
Since TerminusDB treats data like code, efficient version control requires predictable storage. Simplyblock ensures this with database backups in Kubernetes, delivering low-latency performance for cloning, branching, and merging operations across distributed teams.
Yes. Using stateful Kubernetes workloads, simplyblock provides scalable, persistent storage for TerminusDB clusters. This enables fast, consistent branching and merging processes, ensuring developers avoid bottlenecks when managing schema evolution and versioned data inside Kubernetes environments.
Simplyblock delivers data consistency with synchronous replication. TerminusDB workloads remain reliable even during heavy branching or merges, ensuring cloned branches always reflect accurate states without risking corruption, drift, or downtime during high-volume operations.
Yes. Traditional storage introduces latency in branching-heavy workloads. Simplyblock’s modern NVMe-based storage eliminates bottlenecks, allowing TerminusDB to handle complex branching at scale with faster response times and reduced costs compared to legacy systems.