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Question: how does it store data without a database. or does it not store data?

• gragas 10y ago
  Think about it this way: what does a filesystem do?
• stymaar 10y ago
  The "datastore" is a gzip+base64-encoded serialized PHP object written to a file. It's really efficient under shaarli's typical workload : really few writes ans a lot of read => almost no IO, everything stays in the filesystem's cache.
  • ge96 10y ago
    Oh yeah that makes sense, I was thinking there is browser storage but probably not when you turn off the browser/computer.
• bigbugbag 10y ago
  It stores data, it can do so without requiring a database engine. As in flat file database.