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Apparently, in practice there is big difference between cross-platform determinism and same-executable determinism, both in abilities they can provide, and from implementation complexity point of view

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Cross-platform determinism is the strictest definition of determinism I know; not surprisingly, there are quite a few factors which can break it

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to make an efficient representation usable for OLAP – we need to modify our data on its way to OLAP replicas

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Each of the DB Server Apps is a replica master, but all replica targets are within the same Replica DB

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while duplication MAY indeed improve performance – undue duplication also MAY hit performance pretty badly

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NoSQL will usually call for another denormalisation on top of what we’ve described above for SQL-with-XML.

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If we’re speaking about millions transactions per day over just a few hundred of different SQL statements – compiling those statements a million times (instead of a few hundred times) will be a dramatic waste of resources.

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Once upon a time, I observed the largest C++ file in my career – it was a 30’000-line file(!) consisting merely of ODBC bindings (and that was just for 300 or so SQL statements)