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riffraff 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

Well, dbm (database manager) is basically that and has been called that for almost 50 years

otabdeveloper4 14 days ago [–]

dbm isn't a database either, and people who call it that are simply wrong.

shakna 13 days ago | [–]

So... Databases weren't invented, until after the name was in common use?

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