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Just an FYI: org roam is DB based.

Org-roam uses a database, but it is not fully database-based. It only stores the mapping relationships between IDs in the database, but the content itself is not stored in the database.

However, org-supertag is database-based, storing both the content and the relationship mappings in the database.

Org-roam is not "DB-based". All the data remains in the plain text, org-mode format. Org-roam simply adds an indexing layer which sits in sqlite.

Yes, but almost all the features that make Org-roam stand out vs org-mode are via that DB :-)

It still doesn't make it a DB-based solution. Calling it as such is confusing, especially to the long-time Org-mode users. They value the nature of all the data being in plain-text. No valuable data ever goes into that DB, it's purely for indexing. You can safely delete it any time, it just gets recreated.

Saying that Org-roam is DB-based is like characterizing any codebase hosted on GitHub as "written in git". Even though, speaking pedantically, that's true; it still would be nonsensical.

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