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Comment by nextaccountic

7 hours ago

I would like to just have a storage engine that can be very aggressive at deduplicating stuff. If some data is redundant, why am I storing it twice?

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HumanOstrich  6 hours ago

That's already pretty common, but the goal isn't storing less data for its own sake.

  • nextaccountic  1 hour ago

    > the goal isn't storing less data for its own sake.

    Isn't it? I was under impression that the problem is the cost storing all this stuff

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