Markdown Database Pattern

Notenik does has something like this: https://notenik.app/kb/app-overview.html

I've recently switched to SilverBullet[1] as my day-to-day note taking and task tracking app, because of it's very powerful ability to embed little queries and scripts directly in a page to build lists/tables/links that based on data from other pages. This looks like an interesting way to leverage markdown libraries in different ways. Nice!

[1] https://silverbullet.md/

Astro does this by design as part of its content collections: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/

Since this presupposes Markdown of the flavor that comes with YAML frontmatter, and that frontmatter is doing all of the heavy lifting, this is more like a YAML database than a "Markdown database".

In any case, nowhere is it indicated why this approach (no matter what you call it) should be preferred over e.g. recfiles.