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CAP theorem has really served to pry up a lot of things we thought were just about nailed down. I think it’s comparable to what Einstein did to Newton: just a minor change in the way we look at things that compacted all previous ideas into a trivial case for a far weirder world.

For decades, the world of databases was synonymous with relations, transactions, and SQL. Finally it has exploded into exciting, CAP-driven diversity. Key-value stores, string stores, object stores, and well — my favorite — graph stores are suddenly just about everywhere, and each projects is playing by its own set of rules.

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16. NAME -> ('_' | :letter) ('_' | :letter | : digit)* LABEL -> NAME '.' INT -> ('+' | '-')? (:digit+ | '0' ('x' | 'X') :hex+) REAL -> ('+' | '-')? (:digit+ '.' :digit* | '.' : digit+) ('e' | 'E' ('+' | '-')? :digit+)? STR -> ('r' | 'R') ( (:single_quote .* :single_quote) | (:double_quote .* :double_quote) | (:single_quote*3 (. | :newline)* : single_quote*3) | (:double_quote*3 (. | :newline)* : double_quote*3) ); Ident -> NAME | 'prefix' ('+' | '-' | '&' | 'not') | 'postfix' '[' ']' | 'infix' ( '==' | '!=' | '<' | '<=' | '>' | '>=' | 'in' | 'not' 'in' NAME -> ('_' | :letter) ('_' | :letter | :digit) * LABEL -> NAME '.' INT -> ('+' | '-')? (:digit+ | '0' ('x' | 'X') : hex+) REAL -> ('+' | '-')? (:digit+ '.' :digit* | '.' :digit+) ('e' | 'E' ('+' | '-')? :digit+)? STR -> ('r' | 'R') ( (:single_quote .* :single_quote) | (:double_quote .* :double_quote) | (:single_quote*3 (. | :newline)* : single_quote*3) | (:double_quote*3 (. | :newline)* : double_quote*3) ); Ident -> NAME | 'prefix' ('+' | '-' | '&' | 'not') | 'postfix' '[' ']' | 'infix' ( '==' | '!=' | '<' | '<=' | '>' | '>=' | 'in' | 'not' 'in'
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