| ▲ | VerifiedReports 2 days ago |
| It's "key/value store", FYI |
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| ▲ | kqr 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's not a store of "keys or values", no. It's a store of key-value pairs. |
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| ▲ | VerifiedReports 2 days ago | parent [-] | | A key-value store would be a store of one thing: key values. A hyphen combines two words to make an adjective, which describes the word that follows: A used-car lot
A value-added tax
A key-based access system
When you have two exclusive options, two sides to a situation, or separate things; you separate them with a slash: An on/off switch
A win/win situation
A master/slave arrangement
Therefore a key-value store and a key/value store are quite different. | | |
| ▲ | kqr 2 days ago | parent [-] | | All of your slash examples represent either–or situations. A swich turns it on or off, the situation is a win in the first outcome or a win in the second outcome, etc. It's true that key–value store shouldn't be written with a hyphen. It should be written with an en dash, which is used "to contrast values or illustrate a relationship between two things [... e.g.] Mother–daughter relationship" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash I just didn't want to bother with typography at that level of pedanticism. | | |
| ▲ | VerifiedReports 2 days ago | parent [-] | | No, they don't. A master/slave configuration (of hard drives, for example) involves two things. I specifically included it to head off the exact objection you're raising. "...the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, as a date separator, in between multiple alternative or related terms" -Wikipedia And what is a key/value store? A store of related terms. And if you had a system that only allowed a finite collection of key values, where might you put them? A key-value store. | | |
| ▲ | kqr a day ago | parent [-] | | The hard drives are either master or slave. A hard drive is not a master-and-slave. | | |
| ▲ | VerifiedReports a day ago | parent [-] | | Exactly. And an entry in a key/value store is either a key or a value. Not both. | | |
| ▲ | kqr a day ago | parent [-] | | No, an entry is a key-and-value pair. Are you deriously suggesting it is possible to add only keys without corresponding values, or vice versa? |
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| ▲ | abustamam 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wikipedia seems to find "key-value store" an appropriate term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%E2%80%93value_database |
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| ▲ | DonHopkins 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Which is infinite of value is zero. |
