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Comment by Calavar | original | SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
[−]Calavar · 2026-08-29 Sat 19:10 UTC · link
It's a MongoDBism. The MongoDB community used document to mean the nonrelational equivalent of a row in a relational database. But over time there was definitional shift, and now it means a JSON blob, even if that blob is in a relational database.
[−]flomo · 2026-08-29 Sat 22:36 UTC · link
It's a much older term, eg. Lotus Notes was described as a document database.