I have opted to keep the VDBMetadata object to be NotThreadSafe, by allowing the a new object called RuntimeVDB which does the synchronized modifications to the VDB.

I have already written some code to externalize the metadata in DDL form, that can be exposed through a admin method.

I am still trying to understand the redeploy requirement.

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