Locating database remote from local install of Roonserver

[BrianW (Brian)]

@Pascal_Hudon

roon db isn’t a real db.

I’m not a database person, so I have no idea whether what Roon actually uses meets your definition, but FWIW,

Is it normal for Roon's database size/structure to be so large? [yes]

LevelDB is what we chose. It is not SQL… no SQL library would come even close to performing here. SQL databases normally implement something like LevelDB internally for their indexes. Lots of software uses LevelDB – Autodesk AutoCAD and Google Chrome come to mind. The other thing to note is that you have so many files because we save your artist photos and album artwork as individual files. We use a hashed deep directory structure to avoid having directories with many thousands of files, which…