Using 3rd party databases?

[Angercraft]

I'm just curious, I've seen some few places, people trying to use databases such as MySQL to persist data for their mods.

I know forge already has systems to save data, but would there be a use case, in which you can argue for using a database?

 

From wow private servers I always see the data for items, creatures, and so on saved in a MySQL table, mongodb or something similar.

I'd guess this is because there's a lot of data, in which case, could I argue for using a database, if I have a lot of data to save, for example about players?

Just curious, and for now the normal systems are great, but for future reference, I would like to know if it is a bad idea to use 3rd party databases, to not make that mistake.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Draco18s]

1 hour ago, Angercraft said:

I know forge already has systems to save data,

I think you mean Vanilla. Forge does almost nothing to the save system, except provide hooks for mod-added content (including capabilities).

1 hour ago, Angercraft said:

I always see the data for items, creatures, and so on saved in a MySQL table, mongodb or something similar.

Dunno.

[Angercraft]

17 hours ago, Draco18s said:

I think you mean Vanilla. Forge does almost nothing to the save system, except provide hooks for mod-added content (including capabilities).

Dunno.

Yeah I meant the capabilities.

 

So no argument against using, for example MongoDB, to persist data?

[Draco18s]

No, my point was, I don't see the point.

There is nothing wrong with the existing systems.