The Virtual View lets several independent AtomicDB servers answer one question together — as if they were one library — without any of them handing its data to another, or to a centre. Close the view and it is gone: nothing was copied, synchronised or stored.
Type a question and send it. Watch it fan out to every paired library, each answer from its own shelves, and the replies combine in the memory of the asking library — every line naming the library it came from.
| Answer line | Answered by | From its own catalogue of |
|---|---|---|
| Send the question to see the combined answer. | ||
Picture five city libraries. Each owns its catalogue and keeps it on its own AtomicDB server. None wants to hand it to a central system — and none has to.
Libraries pair with each other by certificate, so each knows exactly who the others are. Adding a sixth library is one more pairing.
A reader in one city asks. The question — not the data — is sent to every paired library, as an attested request each owner checks against its own rules.
Owners answer in parallel, from memory, and sign what they return. Each decides what may be asked of it.
The asking library combines the replies into one table, each line naming its source. It can be searched in plain words, pivoted in the Mapper or asked "as of" a date.
Nothing was copied, synchronised or written anywhere. There is no replica to drift and no cache to leak.
Nothing to drift out of date, no nightly sync, no sync lag.
No central service, cache or cloud account to fail or to breach.
Each owner decides what can be asked, and signs every answer.
Every owner answers at once, from memory.
2:21 — the five-library example, from the reader's question to the combined answer and back to nothing stored.
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