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		qianli_cs 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systems ideas that sound good but almost never wor... Or let’s just reinvent a new database

Aloha 11 months ago [–]

Or worse, lets reinvent the database, but not call it or think of it as a database.

Or even worse yet, lets reinvent the filesystem then host it on top of a filesystem.

hot_gril 11 months ago | [–]

I've heard "it's not a database" multiple times, in reference to whatever custom DB our team inherited. Terrifying.

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