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This is interesting, makes me wonder if a "dockerised" database is something people could use. I mean a database frontend with its own language/protocols/whatever that allows you to define the data structure but leaves the specific storage engine or format as a backend detail that can change from platform to platform.

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> I mean a database frontend with its own language/protocols/whatever that allows you to define the data structure but leaves the specific storage engine or format as a backend detail that can change from platform to platform.

That's more or less a description of SQL.

Postgres wire format is indirectly getting there. Plenty of tools use that with wildly different storage engines on the other end.

A clean room implementation would likely yield different results but there appears to be some appetite for a solution.

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