It's really a replacement for R's data.frame. The emphasis is on convenience for data manipulation tasks on heterogeneous rectangular data. I don't think it's intended to be used as a database even if that's possible.
You wouldn't want to use it as a database if you are looking for hardened ACID properties. But if you are looking to work with relational or labeled data sets and/or read & write them between memory & disk, it is an extremely powerful tool.
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