Comment by n0w

I came across this after seeing relic[0] submitted the other day and thought it was pretty interesting.

I've been into CRDTs for a while and have started wondering about generic mechanisms for distributed data. This lead me to read a lot more about the Relational Model of data and eventually to the Event Calculus.

What's interesting to me is that these things end up feeling a lot like CRDTs[1] or Event Sourcing. I haven't quite finished pulling on these threads but the relic link was a timely read considering!

I really liked the first half of this paper and the Authors categorization of complexity. However the second half fell a bit short for me. It seems they made the same mistake as many other people (SQL != Relational) and their idea of Feeders and Observers seems a bit more like an escape hatch than an elegant method for interfacing with the outside world.

[0] https://github.com/wotbrew/relic [1] http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/