[Jtsummers]

That's only if you store your database naively in IPFS. There's nothing preventing you from using more sensible protocols for serializing the DB to storage to allow for better access times.

And it wouldn't require loading from the network every time. Only the first time on some computer. IPFS also allows pinning content so you can improve your access time that way if you control a physical network of computers. You can strategically place your personal IPFS based CDN (using pinning) and then local computers will have very fast access to the data, which will remain cached for future queries or be pinned if absolutely needed.