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which database management system?

Use a database management system

You need to move away from your text file and pickle combination and use a
real database management system. You have plenty of choices here…

If you want rock-
Back ends based on solid without the
Oracle’s technology corporate bloat, it has MS SQL Server is
are rock solid. to be PostgreSQL. used everywhere!
I really like
MySQL and
MariaDB.

All of these fine technologies will work, but they are overkill for your app’s
data requirements. And besides some of these are way beyond the NUAC’s
budget, let alone their ability to set up, run, and maintain such a system.
What you need is something that’s effectively hidden from the NUAC yet lets
you take advantage of what a database management system has to offer.

If only such a technology existed…

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