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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
It has now moved to storing only the metadata in the database and the book files on the file system itself.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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IMO, asking your users to run a separate database process is too much. Look into using some file based database engine like sqlite or metakit.
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That's what I'm feeling, although I don't like the performance of the file based ones. I might write something more tailored if the vote here is against a real database.
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Also if you use a database abstraction layer then users can choose any database backend to suit their needs.
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Absolutely.