[michaelmior]

Why does any app have to "own" the database? I don't see this as being a restriction any more than it is with Markdown. Arguably even less so with a database since you have access to transactions.

[kepano]

If you made a new app what is "the" database you would write to? There isn't an existing standard for this aside from the file system.

[michaelmior]

That's a fair point in the sense that you're always guaranteed to have some file system already :)