I'm glad you didn't list anything that people actually expect from a database. Atomicity. Consistency. Isolation. Durability.

Consider the following. Your database monitors your flock of sheep, and the number of gold coins in your pocket. ${$sheep}{$count} stored in \somedatadir\sheep and ${$coins}{$gold} stored in \somedatadir\coins.

Now you sell a sheep for 15 coins. Now you've got to subtract 1 from one counter, and add 15 to another. What happens if your program fails after finishing one task, and before starting the other? Your data is no longer consistent, and in the best case, you go bankrupt, and in the worst case you'll be arrested after failing the SEC's audit.

In reply to Re^5: Database in a folder? by JavaFan
in thread Database in a folder? by AriSoft

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