Yes, you get some performance improvements, but I think that comes at the price of security isolation. Think about it, your application probably requires tons o

Yes, you get some performance improvements, but I think that comes at the price of security isolation. Think about it, your application probably requires tons of libraries and evolves really quickly compared to the database itself. Additionally, having Admin/root permissions on the server hosting the DB is generally a much bigger deal than granting such permissions on an application server that talks to that DB. If none of this makes sense, don't worry, that just means you don't work in enterprise...