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By the way, if you check it out and find bugs, please let me know :-) It's still at an early stage and for sure has some rough edges.

Thanks and have a great day :)

Oh and maybe another interesting article: https://hackernoon.com/sirix-io-why-copy-on-write-semantics-...

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By the way, would it make sense to work on these visualizations again for comparing revisions?

https://youtu.be/l9CXXBkl5vI

Or would anyone be interested to port the processing.org stuff to the web? Sadly I'm a backend developer and feel a bit overwhelmed by all the front-end frameworks JavaScript stuff), but I think the visualizations for comparing revisions are really helpful.

More information: https://github.com/JohannesLichtenberger/master-thesis/raw/m...

Oh and I think with pointer swizzling (Java object references instead of references to the page-IDs in the buffer manager) we can gain quiet some speed :-)

And maybe adding memory mapped files in the future.

And I also have an idea how to save up even more space on disk/on the flash drive :-)

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