Immutability in databases is an old idea. For example, accountants have been using immutability for centuries in financial bookkeeping. When a transaction occurs, it is recorded in an append-only ledger, which is essentially a log of events describing money, goods, or services that have changed hands. The accounts, such as profit and loss or the balance sheet, are derived from the transactions in the ledger by adding them up [53]. If a mistake is made, accountants don’t erase or change the incorrect transaction in the ledger—instead, they add another transaction that compensates for the
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