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by LAC-Tech 655 days ago
CRDTs are powerful, but it's unfortunate that they leave behind a trail of historical operations (or elements), both in their ops- or state-based variants. Even with compression, it's still a downside that makes me concerned about adopting them.

There's nothing inherent in the concept of a CRDT that requires you to leave behind a trail of historical operations or elements.

You'd be better off directing your criticism and specific implementations than making this blanket statement about what is, at the end of the day, a set of mathematical laws that certain data types / databases follow.