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		mentalgear 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: DriftDB – An experimental append-only dat... Isn't this the same as CRDT libs like automerge are doing ?

packetlost 5 months ago [–]

No, event-sourcing is a subset of an implementation detail of some (most, maybe all?) CRDTs. An event-sourcing based system doesn't even need to be distributed, but often is.

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