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		spullara on April 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple open-sources FoundationDB They had a document layer that wasn't released that was MongoDB compatible — so you can do this.

tinco on April 19, 2018 [–]

MongoDB is just a database with less features than a SQL database. An XML/XQuery database is fundamentally different, so I figured if FoundationDB layers are really so powerful, they might be able to model a tree DB as well.

spullara on April 20, 2018 | [–]

Ah misread. Maybe? Storing hierarchical data would be pretty natural.

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