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Re:Databases in 2025: A Year in Review by SahAssar on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:33PM (#46520432)
How do you deal with deletion requirements in a immutable database? Like how do you delete personal data when requested?
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Re:Databases in 2025: A Year in Review by mwarkentin on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:28PM (#46521360)
Crypto shredding?
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Re:Databases in 2025: A Year in Review by radarroark on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:33AM (#46525683)
The fastest approach is to just zero out the data. Alternatively you can rebuild the entire database while preserving only the data accessible in the latest copy of the db (kinda similar to SQLite's VACUUM command).
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Re:Databases in 2025: A Year in Review by malloryerik on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:26PM (#46534732)
In the case of Datomic: https://docs.datomic.com/operation/excision.html
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