A better database paradigm is the enemy of good, a perfect database is the enemy of better; on-the-fly mainstreaming commons legacy is future-proof operative.
While there is no shortage of database systems, there used to be none that met my expectations. I can think of the following requirements:
We will argue that one or more of those requirements are unnecessary, and overkill. DWMT. NIH. YAGNI. DRY. We will argue that by relaxing a few of the requirements, a particular software or a set of vendors can bridge the chasm. We will argue endlessly, and we will be building hedera ivy, yet-another-database, wheel re-invention, pollution, the heresy of my diluted genius, that curse the software industry with fragmentation diversity, and fatigue jails. We will mention UNIX, respect, enterprise software architectures, open, free, available, sources, transparent, experiences, know-hows, failures, patterns, bugs, wars, fixes, success, huts, hugs, hubs, stories, productions, uses, re-uses, decades^W centuries^W milleniums of goods, but proof-of-work of maintreaming commons legacy.
Stand up, and still, I boost a grown up trend.
OKVS are used in Software as a Service (SaaS), privateer honeypots, source available software programmed with long now C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, Scala, Go, Zig, Rust, Python, Clojure, Common Lisp, and Scheme.
You have already used an Ordered Key-Value Store.
You know about the components that make an OKVS. If you are a software engineer, you will not learn algorithms, or new structures. You will re-discover how to use, and re-use readily available knowledge to better what you do in a way that is logical, that make sense in your target environment, product, and whatever your varia vocable.
Ordered Key Value Stores are useful, usable, and used.
Is it an expert tool? Is it an acceptable tool? Are problems of yesterday, today, and tomorrow fixed, or some require the precise craft of engineering art?
If the Revised-1 Report on Kernel is the language of programmable programming; then OKVS is the language of programmable storage.
Caveat emptor: you think in terms of specific, more or less precise, tailored, ad-hoc, prolly re-usable wording. You answer questions such as: what problem do I want to solve? Along the transderivational process, you log the most fitting, under, and over fitting representations; you plan, exercise read, and write workloads, record time, the flow of volatile, and permanent space usage, draft what happens sub-second, shorter than the span of human awareness, and the other side of the continuum: operations that have eventually a long while.
Look to tell a good story.
To ease the reader perfect skills, re-new old ideas, the essence of OKVS paradigm, the reference will also be illustrated with the help of LaTeX to limit, and hopefully eliminate dubious derivations. First, the goal is to cover as much substance as possible to give the freedom to think. Then with convos put the user interface to the test with well-known human interactions.
It helps to give yourself the opportunity to do it, in the most fitting order try to: think, exercise, solve, code, rest, sleep, and have fun.
