Well, oracle is kind of a beast. If all you need is data storage and maybe an index for fast lookup within 10G of data, sqlite will probably do the trick. It is

Well, oracle is kind of a beast. If all you need is data storage and maybe an index for fast lookup within 10G of data, sqlite will probably do the trick. It is a library, not a server process so you compile it into your app and there is very little ops work to do. As a benefit, you can do many data access patterns that are closer to what you’d do if you wrote the data access code by hand (no network latency etc)