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Comment by scott_w

3 days ago

Only for large scale multiple user applications. It’s more than reasonable as a data store in local applications or at smaller scales where having the application and data layer on the same machine are acceptable.

If you’re at a point where the application needs to talk over a network to your database then that’s a reasonable heuristic that you should use a different DB. I personally wouldn’t trust my data to NFS.

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kunley  3 days ago

What is a "local application"?

  • loxs  3 days ago

    Funny how people used to ask "what is a cloud application", and now they ask "what is a local application" :-)

    Local as in "desktop application on the local machine" where you are the sole user.

    • scott_w  3 days ago

      This, though I think other posters have pointed to a web app/site that’s backed by SQLite. It can be a perfectly reasonable approach, I think, as the application is the web server and it likely accesses SQLite on the same machine.