Databases are an integral part of information systems, and many different database paradigms have been developed over the years (decades) to support all kinds of information storage and retrieval systems. The greatest challenge in developing and building database systems is the technological balance between write and read speeds. Because of how databases work internally, having very high writing speeds means having low reading speeds, and vice versa. 

The solution was to develop and implement a whole new paradigm for bulk-edits in a database system: CitoScribe is a database management layer that supports full-speed non-blocking parallel edits on existing records.
 
Although this new paradigm is closely linked to the Commonsense Knowledge model in ASTRID, we will release CitoScribe as Open Source in the future.