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by indrora 622 days ago
The general definition of "Embedded" is that the engine runs in your application space, as opposed to the more traditional DBMS (MariaDB, Valkey, etc) being a Full Fat Process just for itself. [1] This can reduce RTT to the database itself because you're already there: You've got a whole DB at your fingertips. There's very little worry of cross-application data stink because each application has its own database, alleviating a lot of the authN/Z that comes with a network attached DBMS.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_database