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Jay Han responds to my item on using databases for coordination...
We know that databases provide concurrency control and transaction management. These features let applications share data -- you can call this coordination at low level. But what about coordination at high level? How can they exchange semantics of data? e.g. "9999-12-31 in date field means now? never? forever in the future?" [...]
As long as databases only store data, and don't store whole objects (data+algorithms), they will always risk disassociating meaning and values.
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