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Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ... by Kuinox on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:53AM (#21354045)
So it's not really realtime... No ?

I noticed an instant downvote. It's not the first time i see this behavior on rxdb comments.

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Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ... by dsun180 on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:21AM (#21354635)
The definition of realtime is vague so saying that something is "not really realtime" just because it is not "realtime computing" is wrong.
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Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ... by discreteevent on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:32PM (#21358963)
In fairness it was a bit pretentious of whoever decided to call it real-time which was a word with a specific meaning and a very hard earned reputation. 'Live' might have been better.
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Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ... by ceejayoz on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:17PM (#21360912)
"You see the updates in real time without having to refresh the page" seems like a perfectly reasonable statement.

I submit that being pedantic about such things is frequently its own form of pretension.

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