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		TheLoneWolfling on Oct 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Functional Database [video] Doesn't that mean that the database continually grows in size?

jeremiep on Oct 12, 2013 [–]

It does the same way a git repository does, by accreting deltas with enough metadata to reconstruct the full data at any point in time.

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