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Maybe because it was tempting: JSON is fairly easy to handle, very portable, and when you look at a JSON document, it's straightforward to think about querying it, and thus DB, although JSON is structured, and DBs are relational.


> although JSON is structured, and DBs are relational.

You can have structured relational databases (RethinkDB for one, but there are others)




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