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The principle of immutable log streaming is used in the Lambda[0] and Kappa[1] architectures.

It's also used by state management libraries like Redux[2]. The concept is generic and simple enough that it can be applied to any application where a timeline of state snapshots is useful, so maintaining a history for undo/redo purposes and audit logs is a great fit for it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_architecture

[1]: http://milinda.pathirage.org/kappa-architecture.com/

[2]: https://redux.js.org/

I'd start looking from "event sourcing".

You will be happy to read this famous post if you haven't yet - log instead of database is a great abstraction! https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...

In CAD, it's called parametric modeling, at least the part about being able to regenerate from the start. "feature-based" seems to be the aspect of having features attached to other features in a tree structure rather than a linear sequence of operations.