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On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 1:23:12 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 10/04/2018 23:54, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message
> > news:pahpof$1d9l$1
> >> On 10/04/2018 06:08, Stephen Leake wrote:
> >>
> >>> I use the sqlite variant, but they also support others.
> >>
> >> SQLite is a single-file DB. It has a totally different purpose than DBMS
> >> "proper", e.g. to be linked statically to an application in order to keep
> >> some private persistent data. It wonders me why people keep on mentioning
> >> it in the same row with MySQL, MS-SQL etc.
> > 
> > Maybe because it is all most projects need, but clueless management has
> > required a DBMS? So the programmers fake it by using SQLite and saying it is
> > a DBMS? (Few problems really need a DBMS.)
> 
> BTW, these are two separate questions in one:
> 
> 1. Do we need a shared persistent storage with a well-defined, 
> concurrent, networking, consistent etc interface?

I think this would be quite desirable.

> 
> 2. Must it be relational?

No, I don't believe so.