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Of course Erlang has had ETS (and of course you can use gen_servers of various kinds for this) built in forever. Redis is fantastic but I think there have been
by andy_ppp 8y ago
Of course Erlang has had ETS (and of course you can use gen_servers of various kinds for this) built in forever. Redis is fantastic but I think there have been many examples of prior art before this tweet!
- pushpop 8y agoLots of prior art but the tweet didn’t say PG inspired the paradigm; rather just Redis specifically. Anecdotally, I’ve used plenty of in memory DBs (and written some too) but Redis has been by far my personal favourite.
- zimpenfish 8y agoPerl's `Storable` springs to mind here - I know many places who have mini-"databases" that are effectively straight dumps of Perl variables to disk that get loaded in, worked on, then saved back out. I guess Smalltalk's images are the ur-example here?