winery

Use filesystem as backend

Winery needs to store its contents. These contents need to be shared.

Considered Alternatives

• Filesystem
• Database

Decision Outcome

• Chosen Alternative: Filesystem

Pros and Cons of the Alternatives

Filesystem

• + Easy to manually change values
• + No need to educate students on a certain database system
• + Allows to use git as distributed version control system
• - Consistency check is hard to implement
• - Not transaction safe (concurrency)

Database

• + Transaction safety
• + Scalability
• - Not (directly) possible to use git as distributed version control system
• - Higher skills required

License

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