[Robert Abitbol] I was extremely intrigued a few days ago when I read on this very wiki that using homemade databases is to be preferred to using others' databases: SQL for example. I cannot find the exact location of this statement. I believe it is in a page on databases obviously. Now, why would a homemade database be better than an SQL database for example? Anyone has an idea? [NEM] Depends on what you mean by "database". You almost certainly don't want to implement your own [RDBMS] (or other database managment system). You may well want to write your own database, though (which is the collection of data that you want a RDBMS to manage). [SQL] is a language for specifying queries: it is neither a database nor a DBMS. ----- [Category Community]