A database is essentially a server synchronizing access to the filesystem. Except in the case of sqlite, which is serverless and relying on the filesystem itse

A database is essentially a server synchronizing access to the filesystem. Except in the case of sqlite, which is serverless and relying on the filesystem itself for synchronization. In theory it's going to be worse, though if there is low contention you might have some latency advantages due to not having the server hop.