A data file that is not related to or does not contain any linkages to another file. It is generally used for stand-alone lists. When files must be related (customers to orders, vendors to purchases, ...

File-based databases have been around since the dawn of computing. We’ve always needed to have a way of storing records of the same kind of information. In the PC world, we ended up with very popular ...

Search engines and humans alike are demanding faster and faster websites — particularly Google, which has a self-professed obsession with speed. Because of this widespread need for speed, flat-file ...