Can a Python dictionary be considered a database?

Question

Python

I came across the following question: can a dictionary be considered as a relational database, that is, it stores certain types of elements that can be accessed using a key ..

Answer 1

A dictionary cannot be compared to a relational database, it can be compared to a key value store.

Answer 2

In Excel, each cell is numbered with a unique key, you can even build relationships between cells. Can Excel be considered a relational database? What about any file system? From a formal point of view, yes. The main thing is not to forget to distinguish between a database and a DBMS. For from a formal point of view, a closet full of folders with files is also a database.

Answer 3

As mentioned above key value. But I suspect that in python there are analogues of linq and then this is a real relational database.

Answer 4

I suggest leaving the Python dictionary as a dictionary and not looking for forced analogies. A database (in the general sense of the word) is an RDBMS with ACID support.
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