ActorDB: A Unified Database Model Integrating Single-Writer Actors, Incremental View Maintenance, and Zero-Trust Messaging
This addresses architectural complexity for developers building modern, data-intensive applications, though it appears incremental as it combines existing concepts into a single system.
The paper tackles the complexity of integrating actor models, incremental view maintenance, and zero-trust security in data-intensive applications by proposing ActorDB, a unified database architecture designed to reduce developer effort and enhance robustness.
This paper presents ActorDB ( Dekigoto ) , a novel database architecture that tightly integrates a single-writer actor model for writes, Incremental View Maintenance (IVM), and a zero-trust security model as a core component. The primary contribution of this work is the unification of these powerful but complex concepts into a single, cohesive system designed to reduce architectural complexity for developers of modern, data-intensive applications. We argue that by providing these capabilities out-of-the-box, ActorDB can offer a more robust, secure, and developer-friendly platform compared to solutions that require manual integration of separate systems for actor persistence, stream processing, and security. We present the core architecture, discuss the critical trade-offs in its design, and define the performance criteria for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to validate our approach.