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This post reminds me of a product idea I've been pondering for a while: A versioned database backed by git. It would only be useful for data that made sense to
by Humphrey 6y ago
This post reminds me of a product idea I've been pondering for a while: A versioned database backed by git.
It would only be useful for data that made sense to be represented in individual files (perhaps json files with the file name as the id), with an API that allowed the data to be accessed and written to in a similar way to other databases. Perhaps similar to a nosql database, but because it's in git, everything is versioned and can be reverted.
- jacques_chester 6y agoThere are a few of these around now (various developers of which are active on HN and who will no doubt pop up in a bit). I prefer a bitemporal approach to data history. Easier for non-nerds to understand and much more powerful to boot.
- ishcheklein 6y agoThere are two projects that take this direction - Splitgraph and Dolt.