[realusername]

I was thinking exactly the same, once you want to create a binary efficient format which you can query, you then have the same problems as a database. And if there is something we have learned in the history of computing, it's that databases are hard to design properly, and especially from scratch.

[TheLoneWolfling]

And especially when you want it to be immune to random failures without data loss.

The last few entries of a log file before something catastrophic happens are precisely the entries that are the most important to make sure they aren't lost.