But this would only relate to local databases wouldn't it? Having to connect to a postgres server or something similar. The latency for queries would be far higher than using the file system.
But this would only relate to local databases wouldn't it? Having to connect to a postgres server or something similar. The latency for queries would be far higher than using the file system.
That's orthogonal to the discussion, I think, you can also mount and access remote filesystems from any program as if it was a local filesystem.
Consider: a cheap VPS can have disk latency above 10ms while the in-datacenter LAN can be ~1ms.