Immutability, MVCC, and Garbage Collection Published Dec 28, 2013 by Baron Schwartz in Databases, Best Of at https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-garbage-collection/ Not long ago I attended a talk about Datomic, which focused a lot on database immutability and its benefits. I hope to illustrate why many database designs are much more complicated than Datomic and its ilk. Alt
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