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> Thirdly, because it'd be a hell of a lot of fun! Why else would anyone write a database...

Presumably, because you have a business, which has a product, which has a nascent feature, which requires some particular set of time-and-space-and-distribution guarantees that no current database on the market makes. This is why, for example, Cassandra was developed.



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