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by johannes1234321 2733 days ago
An issue there is the entry level. For CVS a common tool to read and analyse the date exists: Excel.

For sqlite there's hardly an approvable tool for analysis of the data.

Excel is driving the world.

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Well, my personal rule is to never touch csv with excel, because depending on the locales, most of the time excel breaks something in the file. (Of course, in theory I might make a flawless data type mapping when importing the file to excel, but unfortunately that happening is quite rare...)
This is a concern and there are lots of issues (also think about proper escaping etc.) but Excel is ubiquitous outside hackernews's demography.