Re:Show HN: VersionDB – A key, value store inspired by Git
by iovoid on Saturday December 23, 2017 @10:37PM
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git creators refuse to migrate because they selected sha1 in the start and because of backwards compatibility its harder to just change it. Also git is a situation where its harder to get a maintainer to push your binary blob. In a database, its more probable that a user includes malicious data. The hash used is not so easy to change, unless you are willing to make the change not backwards-compatible (break existing DBs)
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Re:Show HN: VersionDB – A key, value store inspired by Git
by josephsweeney on Monday December 25, 2017 @10:35AM
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You're definitely correct. This project is still in its early stages so no one is really using it yet, so its easy in the sense that I just have to change the hashing algorithm. No need to worry about backwards compatibility.