Is it possible to create mini databases such as MySQL within user PODs?
If you run your own server, you can use a database to serve all Pod files.
If you have a Pod on someone else’s server, they may be using a database or a file system or other structures as the backend storage system. You can not host a database or any app other than browser-based Javascript on a Pod. Solid uses RDF (linked data) to store information. It serves the same purpose as a database but is much more flexible in terms of assigning meanings. You can definitely host RDF data sources on your pod and apps can retrieve data from them in much the same way they retrieve data from a database, for example using SPARQL (an RDF querying language) instead of SQL.
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This is certainly something we are looking into at MarkLogic. Our support for RDF/SPARQL and government grade security may be a great fit here.
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