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Only for large scale multiple user applications. It’s more than reasonable as a data store in local applications or at smaller scales where having the applicati
by scott_w 9mo ago
Only for large scale multiple user applications. It’s more than reasonable as a data store in local applications or at smaller scales where having the application and data layer on the same machine are acceptable.
If you’re at a point where the application needs to talk over a network to your database then that’s a reasonable heuristic that you should use a different DB. I personally wouldn’t trust my data to NFS.
- kunley 9mo agoWhat is a "local application"?
- loxs 9mo agoFunny how people used to ask "what is a cloud application", and now they ask "what is a local application" :-) Local as in "desktop application on the local machine" where you are the sole user.
- scott_w 9mo agoThis, though I think other posters have pointed to a web app/site that’s backed by SQLite. It can be a perfectly reasonable approach, I think, as the application is the web server and it likely accesses SQLite on the same machine.
- kunley 9mo agoThat commenter's idea clearly wasn't about desktop application on a local machine. That is why I asked.
- scott_w 9mo agoYou mean Andrew's comment? I took it in the broadest sense to try and give a more complete answer.