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		zmix on Nov 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogg... Why SQL at all? Are there so many relations in the database, that a relational model is a need? Since it has a "social" component, it may be, but I just wanted to place a quick question, without analyzing the project. Thank you.

h1d on Nov 12, 2018 [–]

What other data storage do you suggest in place?

zmix on Nov 13, 2018 | [–]

Since I do not know the data he stores, and in which way (model), I can not comment on this. This is why I asked.

If I'd be to do something similar (actually, I do) I'd use an XML (document) backend, like eXist or BaseX along with XSLT, XQuery and REST.

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