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and what exactly do you think any database is at the end of the day? It's not magic, it all ends up on the disk as a file. I mean why is a page file called a FI

and what exactly do you think any database is at the end of the day? It's not magic, it all ends up on the disk as a file. I mean why is a page file called a FILE?

Chris2048 9y ago
Some dbs (innodb?) support raw block/partition access
wyc 9y ago
Sure, we can agree that (almost) everything's a file. However, through their related programs and daemons, we can ask files for more useful functionality such as indexes, versioning, and yes, socket communications.