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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by KorfmannArno on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:36AM (#26425900)
Don't databases also store data in files or am I missing the point?
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Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built... by capableweb on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:36PM (#26426676)
Yes, ultimately they do (usually) and yes, you are missing the point.

"filesystem as a database" is not referring to database software that stores the data on disk but rather that the application is directly interacting with the filesystem. Imagine dumping a JSON document to disk, then reading it from disk, compared to storing a JSON string in a DB. Sure, they are both backed by the disk, but one is not "filesystem as a DB".

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