Should I use filesystem or database to store my data in my music recognition app?

Question

I have created a music recognition app. I would like to display previously identified songs. Where should I store those data about the songs? in database or filesystem? While one or the other? data= album name , track name, artist, cover image, genre, youtube link.

Answer 1

If you only need to display a single source of non-relational data, then a file is probably the easiest solution.

Once you need relationships between entities, not using a database would be reinventing the wheel.

So if you want a plain list of the data you have, use a file.

If you want an album entity with related track entities and a user entity where each user references a certain track from a certain album, use a database.