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> an in-memory “database” that gets backed up to a file is perfectly reasonable.

We have org-mode, application configs, and music playlists as three widely used examples for this.

You switch to a database when you need to query and update specific subsets of the data, and there's the whole concurrency things when you have multiple applications.



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