Show HN: Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem

what's the use case? certainly the performance impact will suffer at scale, so what's the usable limit before disadvantages outweigh the advantages of being able to use git?

I don't know about performance benchmarks to other DBs or scale, but I ran read and write benchmarks and saw 1000s op/s and felt satisfied enough. It won't be faster than filesystem unless you mount the DB directory to a RAM disk.

For my use case, speed was not the most important, instead it was using common tools on the DB, being human-readable, in JSON and git diff-able. Also, I wanted small resource usage and small library size.

I personally feel like the performance of DBs for smaller projects is a bit of a stale topic.

With SSDs at 2GBps and over, that’s on par with early server RAM and there were companies who were able to serve pretty significant loads with 2GBps RAM.