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Re:Queues and databases by sirrice on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:54AM (#8031479)
Relevant paper: Queues are databases, Jim Gray

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69641/tr-95-56.pdf

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Re:Queues and databases by emmelaich on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:14PM (#8033793)
Good paper.

Likewise, I would say that databases are queues.

In fact everything in computing is a queue; disk i/o, cpu tasks, people at their keyboards.

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