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by romanhn 990 days ago
Reminds me of WinFS, the Windows filesystem built on top of a relational database [0] that was supposed to ship with Longhorn (aka Windows Vista). Neat idea that never materialized.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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jqpabc123 990 days ago
MS NTFS has always used B+trees to index files.

A full relational database for a file system is another example of the DB overkill that is common in the industry.

Teach people to use a hammer and every problem becomes a nail.

Apparently, more rational heads at MS eventually prevailed.

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xyheme 990 days ago
Isn't WinFS the reverse of "file system as database"?

Which is "database as file system".

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