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Basically, a directory tree where the files are JSON. Instead of Unix rm, ls, cat, echo/>>, we have rest endpoints.

The main value prop of a DB is performance, moreso than the interface. How is this different from S3 or Firebase’s rest API?

> Nodb can easily accommodate an increase in the number of requests without breaking down or becoming slow. Your app remains responsive and reliable, even during periods of high demand.

From the limitations docs page:

> Number of read (GET) requests is limited to 10k per month

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> The main value prop of a DB is performance

Filesystems are databases. Do we use filesystems because they're faster than doing direct i/o?

There isn't a value proposition for databases, because a value proposition is a business statement. If there were a business statement for databases, it would be a management interface for data. Nobody cares if a database is fast, they care if they can get their data in and out easier.

> There isn't a value proposition for databases, because a value proposition is a business statement. If there were a business statement for databases, it would be a management interface for data.

This is just bunch of vacuous statements. Are you suggesting this product exists not to serve a business prop or value ?

> Nobody cares if a database is fast

Businesses do. There’s a reason people don’t attempt to build their own database.

Every serious database meant for production use takes performance into consideration. People would just roll their own database otherwise, but we pile into Postgres, or even MongoDb, because they’re battletested and has had years of optimizations. More than half of the work in database implementations is in engine and query optimization.

> they care if they can get their data in and out easier.

Then just store and read flat files from disk.

Strange to use a throwaway to make this comment. It seems like you are the author justifying a product that does need to exist.

I'm assuming the limitation of 10K per month has more to do with their small cloud infrastructure budget than the actual database. Saying that, I can agree that intutively, a webserver can have slower performance than a traditional database but it would be interesting to see some benchmarks.

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