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It's not uncommon to see people advocate for using sqlite as an alternative to flat files or json blobs. In particular, transactions provide nice properties vs
by kevingadd 5y ago
It's not uncommon to see people advocate for using sqlite as an alternative to flat files or json blobs. In particular, transactions provide nice properties vs a web of separate flat files, and the stronger schema can be a good alternative to json. There's a lot of great existing sqlite tooling, too.
- samwillis 5y agoNot only other people, the creators also advocate for it as a file format: https://www.sqlite.org/aff_short.html https://www.sqlite.org/aff_short.html https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
- tyingq 5y agoSqlite archive files are somewhat interesting too: https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html
- le-mark 5y agoThe history around mongrel2 using SQLite as a config file format may be instructive. Seems like there was a lot of resistance in that case.