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Re:RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Op... by lucio on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:51PM (#12665029)
if "Databases should be indistinguishable from magic" then somehow you should be able to get transactions
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Re:RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Op... by dkersten on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:49AM (#12670691)
You can get transactions, but at a cost. Distributed transactions exist, they're just slow (and network-chatty). RethinkDB decided not to go that direction, I guess.
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