Only for large scale multiple user applications. It’s more than reasonable as a data store in local applications or at smaller scales where having the application and data layer on the same machine are acceptable.

If you’re at a point where the application needs to talk over a network to your database then that’s a reasonable heuristic that you should use a different DB. I personally wouldn’t trust my data to NFS.

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kunley 3 days ago | parent [-]

What is a "local application"?

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loxs 2 days ago | parent [-]

Funny how people used to ask "what is a cloud application", and now they ask "what is a local application" :-)

Local as in "desktop application on the local machine" where you are the sole user.

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scott_w 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This, though I think other posters have pointed to a web app/site that’s backed by SQLite. It can be a perfectly reasonable approach, I think, as the application is the web server and it likely accesses SQLite on the same machine.

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kunley 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That commenter's idea clearly wasn't about desktop application on a local machine. That is why I asked.

	▲	scott_w a day ago \| parent [-]
		You mean Andrew's comment? I took it in the broadest sense to try and give a more complete answer.