Flat files

Based on 5241 responses from 926 people, we've built up the following picture of Flat files

Ranked high for:

  1. This database has a low footprint
  2. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  3. This database is very easy to get started with
  4. This database has an unusual data model
  5. This database can be a bit arcane
  6. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  7. This database has a very flexible data model
  8. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  9. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  10. I am familiar with this database

Ranked low for:

  1. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  2. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  5. This database is highly scalable
  6. This database has a good community around it
  7. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  8. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  9. This database is good for querying time series
  10. This database is very reliable

Most similar to

  1. dbm
  2. h2
  3. Sqlite
  4. Derby
  5. Access

Most dissimilar from

  1. Phoenix
  2. MSSQL Server
  3. PostgreSQL
  4. Oracle
  5. kdb

All statements

  1. This database has a low footprint
  2. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  3. This database is very easy to get started with
  4. This database has an unusual data model
  5. This database can be a bit arcane
  6. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  7. This database has a very flexible data model
  8. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  9. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  10. I am familiar with this database
  11. This database has very good write performance
  12. This database has a very restrictive data model
  13. This database has very good read performance
  14. This database has a good story for replication
  15. This database is good for querying graph structures
  16. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  17. This database is very reliable
  18. This database is good for querying time series
  19. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  20. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  21. This database has a good community around it
  22. This database is highly scalable
  23. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  24. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  25. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  26. This database is good at high concurrency writes