I can think of two scenarios (they overlap): 1. Reference data (countries, car makes and models, zip codes, tax rates, etc) 2. “Human scale” databases - ie st

I can think of two scenarios (they overlap): 1. Reference data (countries, car makes and models, zip codes, tax rates, etc) 2. “Human scale” databases - ie stuff that a small group of people are manually curating O(n) would probably be fine for either of those.