https://www.visorcraft.com/news/tags/flat-file/Recent content in Flat-File on VisorCraft NewsHugoen-USSat, 31 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/10/grexa-db-joins-are-directories-of-symlinks/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/10/grexa-db-joins-are-directories-of-symlinks/<p>Every database you have ever used comes with a client library, and that library is a toll booth between you and your own data, because the moment the bytes live inside a <code>.db3</code> or behind a wire protocol, the only way to read them is the driver&rsquo;s way, at the driver&rsquo;s pace, with the driver&rsquo;s idea of what a query is. We got tired of paying that toll on data that was fundamentally just text, so grexa-db inverts the arrangement: records are plain Markdown files with YAML frontmatter sitting in a directory tree, and the relational layer materializes on top of them as directories of symlinks, which means <code>rg</code>, <code>grep</code>, <code>find</code>, your editor, your file manager, and <code>git</code> are all database clients already, and none of them know the database exists.</p>