doesn’t scale well

  • demlimited text e.g., CSV TSV
    • easy to create and process
    • portable
    • lowest common denominator
  • structured text e.g., JSON, XML, YAML
    • many tools for querying and transforming data
    • portable also
  • Serialiased data Structures (usually binary)
    • more compact
    • easy to do
    • single user only
    • no automatic failure recovery
    • no querying
    • versioning issues
    • no standards
    • less portable