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Why "still" ? Is there anything wrong in using the filesystem as a database when it suits to do so ?

• capableweb 6y ago
  Nope, I'm not implying it's bad, just that they used to do that and they still do that to this day. I have nothing against storing data in files. In fact, I do that all the time myself too.
  • KorfmannArno 6y ago
    Don't databases also store data in files or am I missing the point?
    • capableweb 6y ago
      Yes, ultimately they do (usually) and yes, you are missing the point. "filesystem as a database" is not referring to database software that stores the data on disk but rather that the application is directly interacting with the filesystem. Imagine dumping a JSON document to disk, then reading it from disk, compared to storing a JSON string in a DB. Sure, they are both backed by the disk, but one is not "filesystem as a DB".