Exactly. I'd written my now popular web app (most popular Turkish social platform to date) as a Delphi CGI using text files as data store in 99 because I wanted

Exactly. I'd written my now popular web app (most popular Turkish social platform to date) as a Delphi CGI using text files as data store in 99 because I wanted to get it running ASAP, and I thought BDE would be quite cumbersome to get running on a remote hosting service. (Its original source that uses text files is at https://github.com/ssg/sozluk-cgi https://github.com/ssg/sozluk-cgi) I immediately started to have problems as expected, and later migrated to an Access DB. It didn't support concurrent writes, but it was an improvement beyond comprehension. Even "orders of magnitude" doesn't cut it because you get many more luxuries than performance like data-type consistency, ACID compliance, relational integrity, SQL and whatnot.