Show HN: SirixDB 1.0 Beta – Git-Like Versioning, Diffs, Time-Travel Queries
SirixDB 1.0 Beta is a new database system that treats data revisions as first-class citizens, allowing for Git-like versioning and time-travel queries. It uses structural sharing to manage history efficiently without the overhead of traditional audit tables or log replaying.
Why it matters
This technology offers a more efficient way for developers to handle data versioning and historical auditing, potentially simplifying complex infrastructure requirements.
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Status: 1.0.0-beta — usable today and actively developed. The on-disk format and public APIs are stabilizing toward a 1.0 release; feedback from real use is exactly what we're looking for.
You update a row in your database. The old value is gone.
To get history, you bolt on audit tables, change-data-capture, or event sourcing. Now you have two systems: one for current state, one for history. Querying the past means replaying events or scanning logs. Your "simple" audit requirement just became an infrastructure project.
Git solves this for files—but you can't query a Git repository. Event sourcing preserves history—but reconstructing past state means replaying from the beginning.
SirixDB is a database where every revision is a first-class citizen . Not an afterthought. Not a log you replay.
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