Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Models

It's Time to Stop Building KV Databases (buttondown.com)
I'm so sick of Key-Value. The most unopinionated, uninspired data model that is a pain to use for anything.
Databases, Data Models
65 points by foldU 33 days ago | 62 comments
Preserves: An Expressive Data Language (preserves.dev)
This repository contains a definition and various implementations of Preserves, a data model with associated serialization formats in many ways comparable to JSON, XML, S-expressions, CBOR, ASN.1 BER, and so on.
Data Formats, Programming Languages, Software, Data Models, Serialization
78 points by mpweiher 87 days ago | 45 comments
Formance – The Color of Money: Towards a New Data Model for Fintech, Part II (formance.com)
Earlier, we discussed the concept of promises, and how fintechs should see themselves as being in the business of managing warehouses of promises, that is, managing promises between banks and clients on their behalf. But because promises are non-fungible, warehousing will require a new ledger semantics, one that will ultimately make auditing transactions easier and that provides greater protection for customers and other fintechs in the value chain.
Fintech, Data Models, Auditing, Promises, Ledger Semantics
9 points by lifeisstillgood 147 days ago | 6 comments