2025-03-29 UTC
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[artlung] I can't tell what the goal of these distinctions, disagreements, and definitions are about but there are reasons to use "database" in a "RDBMS" (relational database management system) specific to software. But it's true, the word "database" has a rough meaning of "entity that can have data stored in it" which I feel like is creating ambiguities and worsening the mild, not particularly constructive disagreement here in dev.