@tuban_muzuru @erincandescent @alice in most cases "always bet on plain text" is good enough for that kind of thing imo. this is more about strategy and architecture of like... managing content. a sort of storage strategy, one that can handle abstract backends

it's probably going to look less like an sql database and a lot more like object storage in the end: the blob being the content (even if it's as simple as a literal string), and the metadata being whatever attribute-value pairs

@trwnh @tuban_muzuru @alice I've got a bit of a visceral reaction to this after dealing with formats with 3 nested layers of Base64

But it's reasonable for purely textual data

@erincandescent @alice @tuban_muzuru the goal of this thought exercise is to use exactly 0 layers of nesting