File/Flat

• Flat File formats

  • systems of organization that use plain text file formats like Markdown are usually set in opposition to systems that use Databases

  • advantages

    • git/Friendly - git is meant for text files
    • Intuit/ive - they work well with the Unix/Philosophy
    • usually they work well up to a certain project size, and then lead to performance problems. for example, LogseqDB is a response to this