> * "You might find out that the data doesn’t fit into RAM (which it well might, JSON is a human-readable format after all)" -- if I'm reading this right, the a

> * "You might find out that the data doesn’t fit into RAM (which it well might, JSON is a human-readable format after all)" -- if I'm reading this right, the author is saying that the parsed data takes _more_ space than the JSON version? JSON is a text format and interning it into proper data structures is likely going to take _less_ space, not more. Not to mention, even when using bad data structures (eg. hashmap of hashmaps..), One can just add a large enough swapfile and brute force their way through it no?