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upmostlytoday at 1:49 PM1 replyview on HN

Exactly. And most apps don't get there and therefore don't need it.


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evaneliastoday at 2:19 PM

Your article completely ignores operational considerations: backups, schema changes, replication/HA. As well as security, i.e. your application has full permissions to completely destroy your data file.

Regardless of whether most apps have enough requests per second to "need" a database for performance reasons, these are extremely important topics for any app used by a real business.