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Re:Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database by chubot on Saturday October 15, 2016 @09:05PM (#12716340)
Which ones are you thinking of?

The nice thing about git is that it doesn't really require much of the server. I run my own "git hosting" with linode, apt-get, and ssh.

Most of the solutions for immutable big data don't have that level of convenience, as far as I know. Anything which requires a lot of sysadmin and ops work will eventually become a commercial cloud service... git on the other hand is useful by itself, and good companies can obviously be built on top of it as well.

Re:Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database by TylerE on Saturday October 15, 2016 @10:00PM (#12716458)
Most binary formats don't diff well.