It's ACID compliant yes, but it is not a database.
/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
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Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#132You say it is always empty, but. I have seen weird issues coming from /dev/null not actually being empty but being a file or symlink (dont remember) With garbage data.
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#133Always instantly consistent, always available, and perfectly tolerant of partitioning. Truly, it is the only database which can be scaled to unlimited nodes and remain fully CAP.
Always available? Clearly you have not experienced situations with no /dev mounted.
Even worse, /dev/null replaced by a normal file!
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#134Reminds me of mangodb: https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb
The DB at cloud scale
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#135It is also local first, low latency, data residency compliant, SOC2 compliant, zero dependency and webscale.
Does it have sharding? I heard sharding is the secret sauce for webscale.
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#136Now make an algebra out of the CAP theorem. It's not already one, isn't it? Didn't read the paper.
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#137In a similar vein, this is one of the most interesting things I’ve come across on HN over the years: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/pipelogic/index.php Past HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15363029
And fastjson is an extremely fast json parser: https://github.com/qntm/fastjson
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a funny one if it was one. Of course something is going to be a bad database if it's not a database.
It's nerd humor. You're not supposed to find it funny, but nod along approvingly while noticing how awfully clever you are for noticing the attempt at being funny.
Considering that D in "ACID" stands for "durable", it's a pretty sloppy joke.
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#139Not on Windows.
You could emulate it. Open windows, throw everything out, close it.
Re: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
#140Reminds me of how in the math lectures, our professor would always point out he was ignoring the trivial solution[1].
That /dev/null is ACID compliant is the trivial solution of databases.
Still, a jolly good read, and a nice reminder that concepts like ACID don't exist in a vaccuum.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triviality_(mathematics)#Trivi...