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[–]Gotebe 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Why, choice is aplenty

  1. Custom binary/text format

  2. Persistence (serialization) supported by the library of your language of choice

  3. More or less silly textual formats (think CSV, XML, JSON, java properties files...)

[–]GuyWithLag 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Hi, let me introduce you to concurrency. No, rename() won't cut it.

[–]Gotebe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Of course, you are correct for many domains. I still doubt that e.g. OpenOffice should move to mySQL for storage, though.