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The Verge Takes on Self-Hosting for the Masses
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That makes sense. I think the reason why they're not represented as files is pretty simple. Data integrity. If you want to get the comments you just query the table and as long as the DB schema is what you expect then it'll work just fine and you don't have to validate that the data hasn't been corrupted (you don't have to check that a column exists for example). But with files, every single file you need to parse and validate because another application could have screwed them up. It's certainly possible to build this, it might be slower but computers are pretty fast these days, but it would require more work to develop to solve the problem that the database solves for you.