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> In his landmark book The Art of Computer Programming, legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth noted that although the first binary search algorithm was published by John Mauchly in 1946, the first bug-free version was not published until 1962—taking a staggering 16 years to get right.
10m is larger than current resident counts, so people moving in can decide now if they want to move with uncertainty. It is not what everyone would like, but it is more understandable that recent Swedish changes, for example.
> doesn’t pose any constraints on the type of data.
logic, raw disk is also a database. One just need to add block level replication to other nodes to build a replicated/ HA database.
We may not agree, but anything not providing transactions across logically related multiple data read/ update operations is not a database.
> multiple instances to provide the same data
is easy and done by a bunch of software out there, but
> multiple instances to provide the same data on non-shared memory computers, with consistency
is a really hard problem, and no one has been able to solve it yet without introducing other problems to be considered (giving up on fast performance being one of the most visible one) by architects/ developers.