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Chill out man. I'm just pointing out this stuff has been around in commercial products for a very long time.

> AFAIK Redis is one of the first DBs exposing basic computer science data structures as abstract types

With something like ObjectStore you've had persistent storage of arbitrary templatized data structures for ages. You want a hash of hashes ultimately pointing to a void* value? Easy.

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Even with an SQL table you can build every data structure. Pointers to pointers to pointers. But this is not the point(er) and I can't explain it any better than in my previous message.

You don't have to "build" the data structure. You are using your native structures.

As a recent redis convert let me put it differently:

Redis is a tool in the unix-sense of the word. OOStore a solution in the enterprise sense.

Hackers tend to prefer tools, because they can combine them to build superior solutions.

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