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Delta State Replicated Data Types — mentioned by linkdd

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:35:23 GMT

Last-Write-Win CRDTs are nice, but I wish the article talked about where CRDT really shine, which is when the state truly converge in a non-destructive way, for example: 1) Counters While not really useful, they demonstrate this well: - mutations are +n and -n - their order do not matter - converging the state is a matter of applying the operations of remote peers locally 2) Append-only data structures Useful for accounting, or replication of time-series/logs with no master/slave relationship between nodes (where writes would be accepted only on a "master" node). - the only mutation is…

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Delta State Replicated Data Types — mentioned by rklaehn

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 06:43:03 GMT

Yes, there is a lot of awesome stuff that just works. SSB, the entire DAT/hypercore community, tools like syncthing that just do one thing well. I like the SSB approach of just embracing subjectivity. I was quite amazed when discovering all this at dtn.is (Before I only knew the IPFS community). But I feel there is still something missing for very wide spread adoption. What we are trying to do with TLFS is to combine - a CRDT with strict schema ( Adapted from https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01529 ) - a built in way to do schema evolution ( Adapted from https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/ )…

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Delta State Replicated Data Types — HN submission

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 23:46:08 GMT

Delta State Replicated Data Types (2016)

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Delta State Replicated Data Types — mentioned by iamaleksey

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:28:00 GMT

Except they are. Catalogued as δ-CRDT, under Lexicographic Counter in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.01529.pdf edit: Although to be fair that blog post is ancient and covers Cassandra 2.0, now no longer supported. Counters were rewritten in Cassandra 2.1.

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