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"I can also ditch a database and just dump everything into a text file." <- This is what you're saying. It isn't hard to see the problem with this kind of thing.

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AmalgatedAmoeba 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

ngl, a lot of the times, an in-memory “database” that gets backed up to a file is perfectly reasonable. Even consumer devices have dozens of gigabytes of RAM. What percentile of applications needs more?

Just because a technology works well for a few cases shouldn’t mean it’s the default. What’s the 80% solution is much more interesting IMO.

	▲	iamsaitam 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There's absolutely no problem with this. But it probably shouldn't be a best practice or default for the industry? That's what op was saying. I'd argue you're still better off using SQLite than doing it manually, but to each its own.
	▲	skydhash 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> an in-memory “database” that gets backed up to a file is perfectly reasonable. We have org-mode, application configs, and music playlists as three widely used examples for this. You switch to a database when you need to query and update specific subsets of the data, and there's the whole concurrency things when you have multiple applications.

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