I am building a DB based on JSON OT for collaborative apps

3 points by gavribirnbaum 6y ago ↗ HN

I am starting to build a NoSQL database built for collaborative apps. Collaborative apps have a huge versioning issue and current databases don’t implement that well I believe.

The idea is a DB based on JSON Operational Transformation. Updates are made based on operations with a document version. Plus I was thinking of having subscriptions like RethinkDB.

Does that sounds like something helpful? Would love any feedback!

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brudgers 6y ago ↗

This sounds isomorphic with multi-version concurrency control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contr...

oneearedrabbit 6y ago ↗

I'm pretty sure you heard about ShareDB [1]; I wonder, if you're implementing your own solution because there are some limitations in ShareDB.

- [1] https://github.com/share/sharedb

gavribirnbaum 6y ago ↗

Yeah, I mean ShareDB is not a Database. It is just a JS client. We were thinking of building an actual JSON OT database.