The crazy habits proponent in your workplace is simply ahead of his time: there is the "SQLite for edge" vulgata now and he/she may skim some of the wheel reinv

The crazy habits proponent in your workplace is simply ahead of his time: there is the "SQLite for edge" vulgata now and he/she may skim some of the wheel reinvention and funny engineering problems with throwing around SQLite files, like in the good old Access days. People should not cache something that changes very often.