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Can we say textfile is a database? As we know that a database is a collection of data
and a database allows easy retrieval and manipulation, but we can do these things with
a textfile. So is a text file is a database?
Yes. They can even be treated as entities and used in Unix text tools in relational terms (join,cat(union),grep(select),cut(project)) and use
awk(and perl) for a traditional record-by-record predicate/action programming model (SQL).I would not however, call a collection of text files a database MANAGEMENT system.