Databases versus plain text

Question

When dealing with small projects, what do you feel is the break even point for storing data in simple text files, hash tables, etc., versus using a real database? For small

Answer 1

I think at some point you'll miss the querying capabilities of a database, but you can consider some minimalistic database alternatives:

• SQLite (Great, almost SQL-92 standard compliant)
• shsql
• SQL Server Compact