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Re:Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree [pdf] by noahdesu on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:27PM (#8696422)
I think the MVCC features in Minuet are applicable in instances where immutability can be used as an optimization, such as Datomic. However, Datomic has a very specific data model and set of use cases which means they likely optimize in a variety of domain specific ways. More likely I would suspect Minuet is positioned to be the basis for a RDBMS storage engine, or on its own as a powerful key/value store.
Re:Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree [pdf] by coolsunglasses on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:05PM (#8696611)
> means they likely optimize in a variety of domain specific ways

How I wish they did.

Re:Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree [pdf] by noahdesu on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:13PM (#8696652)
I've never used Datomic, so maybe this should have been written as:

> which means they _could_ optimize in a variety of domain specific ways.

Re:Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree [pdf] by ComNik on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:45PM (#8696839)
Could you elaborate on that?