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On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:

> - make any table persistent:  the user doesn't care about how the data
> is stores, as long as it preserves as much as possible of the table.
> using databases or key/value stores would be great both for speed,
> flexibility and ease of management.

I personally find this entire premise a bit quixotic in practice.

As Shrek would say, there are 3 layers to this story:

(1) table
(2) serialization
(3) persistence

So… Persist( Serialize( { … } ) )… no much point in throwing magic at it … To quote Mr Gold: "All magic comes with a price, dearie"…