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The kinds of databases: • Fancy files • 1970s stays winning • This would be so cool if it worked at scale • Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search

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Really hoping for a resurgence of filesystems. A life of being called to files. bsky.app/profile/jim-... With incremental snapshots it feels like we can sync these filesystems very very cheaply, reap some incredible fan out wins.

Jim Nielsen@jim-nielsen.com

Hey, recently came to the same realization: choosing to store my data as JSON files on disk (rather than rows in a DB) has actually paid some good dividends. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...

Hence why oracle makes their money hoarding your data into decades old database tech anyone can compete with then make you pay exorbitant fees if you want your data back

I feel like Excel should at least get the database fancy file format lifetime award, which will be accepted on its behalf by CSV, because Excel thinks itself too cool to come out of the clouds to attend the ceremony.