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What does this do that cannot be done with git or similar software + data stored in some standard format?
by fiatjaf 9y ago
What does this do that cannot be done with git or similar software + data stored in some standard format?
- akarve 9y agoFour things: serialization, virtualization, querying, big data (even Git LFS isn't super performant for large files). Quilt actually transforms data into Parquet and wraps it in a virtualization layer so that the data can be injected directly into code. Efficient querying is a function of the serialization. By contrast, GitHub is a blob store, it doesn't transform the data either for serialization or for virtualization.