I think the issue is that there are so many different reasons projects need any storage. There's a reason why you need persistence, there's a reason why you need ACID, there's a reason you need some form of replication ...
Eg: a cms like WordPress would probably have been better off just storing structured data in xml files on disk (or nfs) - along with media files on disk. Or using Berkeley db/later sqlite.
Your point of sale terminals might not fare so well without central inventory.
I think the issue is that there are so many different reasons projects need any storage. There's a reason why you need persistence, there's a reason why you need ACID, there's a reason you need some form of replication ...
Eg: a cms like WordPress would probably have been better off just storing structured data in xml files on disk (or nfs) - along with media files on disk. Or using Berkeley db/later sqlite.
Your point of sale terminals might not fare so well without central inventory.