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thebigjc on July 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: FoundationDB: A new generation of NoSQL database

Snapshops / backups with MVCC isn't that complicated - you take a snapshot of the versions, and then backup the data at that version.

fdr on July 27, 2012 [–]

It is not complex, but it is very burdensome, usually because various garbage collection processes cannot act as long as the long snapshot is open.

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