Noms is a great example of the power of decentralized database technology, the interesting research that goes into such systems, and wonderful documentation to

Noms is a great example of the power of decentralized database technology, the interesting research that goes into such systems, and wonderful documentation to browse. I do want to note some tradeoffs with Content-Addressed and Append-Only systems, as my work on a similar project ( an Open Source Firebase, https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun ) made me move away from those ideas (even though they are great ideas). - Content-Addressed stores are going to revolutionize data integrity and efficiency. But they do have a trade off, it makes it a lot harder to read the data if you do not already know the data you are trying to read! The bottom of the repo metions for instance that a query system has not yet been built. From my experience the reason why is because it is difficult to build query systems on Content-Addressed stores, which is a tradeoff from all the gains you can get from it. - Append-Only gives you rich features like offline-first support and (if implemented) lovely things like rewind/fastforward data time travel. All very cool. However, do not forget that this then also makes it difficult for you to retrieve the latest whole snapshot of your data. So you are not going to get the read performance that you could. But the only possible way for us as a community, and people playing around with databases, can figure out what the best system is - is for people to build and experiment. Which is part of the reason why Nom is so cool. It is an invitation to others to actually join, play, and experiment with database technology in an open and encouraging environment. That is incredibly valuable and needed!