[g19fanatic]

You have any good simple examples of your backend? Sounds like what I've been attempting to explain to others. How many concurrent requests and what size of data can you run with a setup as described?

[hmottestad]

Because you asked I got around to publishing it on Github: https://github.com/HASMAC-AS/LightStore

[dncornholio]

Storing stuff in a json file sounds horrible to me. Why would you want that?

[Spivak]

Because your data is teeny tiny, not performance critical, and `json.load` and `json.dump` is easy and usually less brittle then you're language's marshalling library.

[paul_f]

PHP supports complex data structures using associative arrays which map to the application requirements. Which can be easily saved in JSON. A SQL database with rows and fields does not always work well with these data structures. Often, as long as the data size is manageable, a json saved in a mediumtext field in MySQL works just fine.