For posterity sake, it reminds me of MUMPS persistent sparse arrays, but built to scale much larger. This comment is not meant in any way to take away from this achievement, but rather to muse on where we were and where we're going.
It seems like the days we were stuck in particular or limited ways of thinking about databases/persistent storage are finally well and truly behind us! Now we have many awesome tools to choose from, better to have more tools in the belt than less.
Haha, fully agree! It's good to separate MUMPS the language from MUMPS the storage layer / database which was innovative and pioneering in many ways. I don't think we need to re-hash MUMPS the language :)
It seems like the days we were stuck in particular or limited ways of thinking about databases/persistent storage are finally well and truly behind us! Now we have many awesome tools to choose from, better to have more tools in the belt than less.