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by VerifiedReports 176 days ago
It's "key/value store", FYI
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kqr 176 days ago
It's not a store of "keys or values", no. It's a store of key-value pairs.
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VerifiedReports 175 days ago
A key-value store would be a store of one thing: key values. A hyphen combines two words to make an adjective, which describes the word that follows:

  A used-car lot

  A value-added tax

  A key-based access system
When you have two exclusive options, two sides to a situation, or separate things; you separate them with a slash:

  An on/off switch

  A win/win situation

  A master/slave arrangement
Therefore a key-value store and a key/value store are quite different.
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kqr 175 days ago
All of your slash examples represent either–or situations. A swich turns it on or off, the situation is a win in the first outcome or a win in the second outcome, etc.

It's true that key–value store shouldn't be written with a hyphen. It should be written with an en dash, which is used "to contrast values or illustrate a relationship between two things [... e.g.] Mother–daughter relationship"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash

I just didn't want to bother with typography at that level of pedanticism.

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VerifiedReports 175 days ago
No, they don't. A master/slave configuration (of hard drives, for example) involves two things. I specifically included it to head off the exact objection you're raising.

"...the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, as a date separator, in between multiple alternative or related terms"

-Wikipedia

And what is a key/value store? A store of related terms.

And if you had a system that only allowed a finite collection of key values, where might you put them? A key-value store.

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kqr 175 days ago
The hard drives are either master or slave. A hard drive is not a master-and-slave.
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VerifiedReports 175 days ago
Exactly. And an entry in a key/value store is either a key or a value. Not both.
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abustamam 176 days ago
Wikipedia seems to find "key-value store" an appropriate term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%E2%80%93value_database

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VerifiedReports 175 days ago
See above.
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abustamam 174 days ago
Still not sure what point you're trying to make. You attempted to correct GP's usage of "key-value store" and I merely pointed out that it is the widely accepted term for what is being discussed.

Whether or not it's semantically "correct" because of usage of hyphen vs slash is irrelevant to that point.

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DonHopkins 176 days ago
Which is infinite of value is zero.
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