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So yet another database (for certain definitions of database) built for the tiny fraction of applications that will:

a) warrant this kind of complexity b) be able to give up ad-hoc queries

So I guess if I ever need to build a highly scalable, fault tolerant, distributed todo list.. I'll look into it. Not sure how I will aggregate data to run the dashboards that my MBAs will be up my butt about though. Guess we can cover that detail later?



a) ActorDB is not actually all that complex.

b) ad-hoc queries tend to be the first thing out the window once you hit a certain size (query load or dataset size). ActorDB arguably gives you the largest amount of query flexibility out of the new breed of databases, while still being strongly consistent and persistent (not memory only).


The ways in which it can (and will) fail are monumentally complex. Everything looks simple when it's working.




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