Martin Kleppmann personal blog
Turning the database inside-out (2015)
Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most self-respecting developers have got rid of mutable global variables in their code long ago. So why do we tolerate databases as they are?
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Databases & DataSystems & Performance2025
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2025 | Turning the database inside-out (2015) by andection | 192 | 95 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from May 2021 to Jan 2025.
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- sewen · Jan 24, 2025
- sewen · Jan 24, 2025
- ignoramous · Sep 21, 2022
- rektide · May 26, 2021
