> If SQLite wasn't there and my options were basically key value stores Well, there were "options" other than KV stores - MySQL launched a month before Viaweb

> If SQLite wasn't there and my options were basically key value stores Well, there were "options" other than KV stores - MySQL launched a month before Viaweb (but flakey for a good long while.) Oracle was definitely around (but probably $$$$.) mSQL was being used on the web and reasonably popular by 1995 (cheap! cheerful! not terrible!) (definitely understand making your own in-memory DB in 1995 though)