Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database
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Channel: InfoQ
Views: 85,921
Rating: 4.9479289 out of 5
Keywords: database, rich hickey, jaxconf, marakana, techtv, datomic, development, architecture
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Length: 66min 23sec (3983 seconds)
Published: Thu Aug 23 2012
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If you like this, you might be interested in the keynote this video is extending:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values
and other Richies talks, like
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
(shamelessly copied from the discussion on HN)
I would like to see a blog engine or wiki built on this database, and compare the lines of code to a solution in SQL.
Awesome. I'm relatively new to Clojure/FP, but I really like how he puts the same ideas onto a database model.
I really like the underlying ideas. Do any of you know any alternatives to this? I mean a database that stores triples, has explicit support for versioning and a transaction semantic?
So noob question, how can I start experimenting with this new structure? Is there or will there be a DB software made like this, or can it also be done through implementation of existing ones (I think he mentioned that briefly but not sure).
Rich Hickey... This man is friggin' genius!
He actually extended his old identity/value/perception concept to databases. Also I admire his choice of what NOT to implement/reinvent: he chose to re-use already existing storage solutions, because he noticed that already existing ones are actually quite good.