General Developer Experience (DX) speaking, IMO, File and Folder are kind of better at CRUD-ing json. One file per attribute, and foldable attributes are folder

General Developer Experience (DX) speaking, IMO, File and Folder are kind of better at CRUD-ing json. One file per attribute, and foldable attributes are folders (object and array types). It scales quite well rather than loading a big file into memory. Tools around file system are battle tested. Basic operations; read=ls, create=touch/mkdir, update=mv, delete=rm. Linking data = symbolic link. File explorer/manager helps managing attributes much nicer than in-file operations. It can even use extension as types, structural folders as schema. jq is nice but you've already got: find, grep, awk, sed programs. The only downside I can think of is size might be larger depending on what's minimum block size (e.g. 4096 bytes) hmm