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>Parsing?!? In ORMs and DBMSes?!? What exactly do you think a database does? Provides a way to durably store tabular data on disk and read it back. Without a d

>Parsing?!? In ORMs and DBMSes?!? What exactly do you think a database does? Provides a way to durably store tabular data on disk and read it back. Without a database, I have to make that myself by writing serialization routines to put my data structures on disk and parsing routines to go from "stream of characters" to my data structures. DMBS places some limits on your data structures but does all that for you.

sklogic 12y ago
If serialisation is hard for you, then you probably doing something badly wrong. In the tools I'm using it's done by a single line of code. And since most of the time data structures are trees or graphs, being sledgehammered into a tabular structure is not pleasant at all.