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Re:Show HN: JSONlite – A simple, serverless, zero-configurat... by jakewins on Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:26AM (#13628740)
Many operating systems do not handle tens of thousands of file handles open simultaneously very well.

For instance, if you run this database on Linux, the RAM overhead for each document is 1K just for the file handle, see the comment at the bottom here http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/file_table.c

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