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		davgoldin on April 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure... Why read only? What's stopping this engine from using (for example) FoundationDB as storage?

zachmu on April 10, 2024 [–]

Nothing, it's just quite a bit more complicated to implement a backend that supports writes.

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