I was extremely intrigued a few days ago when I read on this very wiki that using homemade databases is to be preferred to using others' databases: SQL for example.
I cannot find the exact location of this statement. I believe it is in a page on databases obviously.
Now, why would a homemade database be better than an SQL database for example? Anyone has an idea?
NEM Depends on what you mean by "database". You almost certainly don't want to implement your own RDBMS (or other database managment system). You may well want to write your own database, though (which is the collection of data that you want a RDBMS to manage). SQL is a language for specifying queries: it is neither a database nor a DBMS.