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The whole point of a database engine is to make efficient use of disk space by allocating pages and distributing the data across them so that inserting or remov
by hsn915 4y ago
The whole point of a database engine is to make efficient use of disk space by allocating pages and distributing the data across them so that inserting or removing small elements does not result in megabytes of data rewrites
- markisus 4y agoI think you're getting at only half of the idea of a database engine. The other half is to provide a flexible querying interface to slice up and aggregate the data into reports. The user may be willing to tolerate some inefficiency in storage / modification if they have a small number of records, as long as the querying interface is useful.
- hsn915 4y agoIf you have a small number of records what do you need an engine for? Just write a for loop.
- PainfullyNormal 4y agoI thought the point of a database engine was transaction processing. What you're describing is an interface that can have many different methods of storage.
- nh23423fefe 4y agono, the point of a database engine is to respond to queries