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JSON is there for human to read a record of data by group. I think it is only good to use directory as data table to store JSON data files, but not for JSON da

• duped 3y ago
  > JSON is there for human to read a record of data by group. That's what tree is for > I think it is only good to use directory as data table to store JSON data files, but not for JSON data properties. I see that as no better than one big JSON file or a normal NoSQL database. If you're really fancy then the whole DB is just a VFS and those JSON files aren't real files, just a serialized form of the DB.
  • xyheme 3y ago
    directory tree is not as easy to view and edit as JSON. One big JSON file is harder. I am not fancy, and the aim is to simply use file system as database. Not fancy stuff like "database as file system as database".
    • duped 3y ago
      > directory tree is not as easy to view and edit as JSON. tree path/to cat path/to/key echo "1" > path/to/key But my point is that you're not using the file system as a database. You're using it as an index, and haven't considered about multiple readers/writers to those individual JSON files that are doing the real work as databases. It's kind of like writing JSON into a SQL table. You can do it, but probably not to store important data within that JSON that always needs to be queried and ser/deserialized for any kind of read or write. If you need that, you probably want NoSQL.