[thutch76]

I love reading posts like these.

I will still reach for a database 99% or the time, because I like things like SQL and transactions. However, I've recently been working on a 100% personal project to manage some private data; extracting insights, graphing trends, etc. It's not high volume data, so I decided to use just the file system, with data backed at yaml files, with some simple indexing, and I haven't run into any performance issues yet. I probably never will at my scale and volume.

In this particular case having something that was human readable, and more importantly diffable, was more valuable to me than outright performance.

Having said that, I will still gladly reach for a database with a query language and all the guarantees that comes with 99% of the time.