I second that motion. SQLite isn’t an SQL database server. What it is, is a public-domain(!) single file format which supports a rather full SQL-database model within that file (or files), including reliable transactions and therefore locking and known-good file sharing. You don’t have to install anything beyond a package. Since the database is “just a disk file,” in the same way that the file that you are now contemplating is just a disk file, this approach would give you tremendous “bang for your buck” and I would argue that no proprietary approvals of any kind would be necessary ... even in the most “hardened” business environment. You are storing the data “in a file,” as originally contemplated, but now that file happens to be an extremely smart file. Furthermore, the odds that SQLite is already there, even for run-of-the-mill purposes like hosting the cpan modules database, are pretty near 100%.
P.S.: Yes, I said public domain. There is no license.
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