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Built-in soft deletes are one of the reasons I like XTDB
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RT @xtdb_com
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

"life when you don't have bitemporality" - @malcolmsparks


twitter.com/xtdb_com/status/15

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@worldsendless isn't that an artifact of them using an immutable ledger
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@icedquinn Yep. A beautiful artifact of immutability. I have never seen them market that fact, but as someone who has gone to pains to implement soft-deletes in half a dozen PostGres systems after wishing we had it, this default with XTDB is nice.

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@worldsendless the concept of files that grow forever give me issues. :cirno_help:
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@icedquinn Yeah, I totally get that. But it seems like space concerns are going we way of hierarchical directory structures; that is, kids these days don't know anything about them.

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@worldsendless you can avoid this with a "fractal cascade," ex. every thousand entries is put in a sub-chain (which in turn every thousand entries in that is a sub-sub-chain) which means the amount of data required to be stored grows significantly slower.

i'm not aware of anyone who does it though.
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@icedquinn The idea being that you are only ever dealing with a smaller piece of the blockchain, rather than all of it?

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