I'm with you on this one. I was thinking it would be cool to "bake in" the DB layer of an application and have it run in-process. Then you'd just provide it wit

I'm with you on this one. I was thinking it would be cool to "bake in" the DB layer of an application and have it run in-process. Then you'd just provide it with block storage and it would handle the rest without having to have a separate server. You could even do compile-time migration and index generation based on your queries. With a distributed actor framework like Akka.NET or Orleans, it could probably be made to scale too. The only downside is that the only interface to your data is through the application, but there's certainly a use-case for something like that.