There's a mountain of valid complaints for the windows registry, but it not being a database is not one. It's a pretty standard (albeit very simple) hierarchic

There's a mountain of valid complaints for the windows registry, but it not being a database is not one. It's a pretty standard (albeit very simple) hierarchical database like IMS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_Sys... Hierarchical DBs have fallen out of favor a bit, but they were the first DBs.