[abraxas]

Nice but my super anal quip is please don't call this thing "realtime". It doesn't make sense in this context. What is realtime about it? Are there timing guarantees or are timing constraints provided in API requests? Because that's what realtime systems are. Realtime does not mean "real fast". For example, a train track switching system might be getting run by a 1MHz CPU and still be real time. It's not about speed, it's about deadline guarantees.

[willy_k]

It’s not a real-time operating system. In this case, real-time means it is built such that a client gets access to updated database values as soon as they change, as opposed to a non real-time database which doesn’t necessarily have a built-in mechanism for reliably on time updates.

[abraxas]

You mean like eventual consistency vs immediate consistency? Because a database that reflects its changes at the end of a transaction is called an ACID database not a real-time database.