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Re:Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection (2013) by taeric on Saturday January 31, 2015 @11:34PM (#8979175)
Many of the arguments in favor of newer databases are about how much simpler these append only data structures make both storing and reasoning about things. The point of this article seems to be that this is neither absolutely true, nor new.
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Re:Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection (2013) by hyc_symas on Sunday February 01, 2015 @04:37AM (#8979554)
Agreed. None of the ideas are new, and append-only doesn't make life easier.
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