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A computer system includes a server that is connected to a database. The server receives incoming messages from one or mere of client devices and stores the incoming messages in a flat file. The incoming messages include instructions for updating the database. The server updates the database by performing update operations according to the received instructions, and compares a commit interval duration to a predetermined threshold. Based on results of the comparison, the server selectively issues a database commit command to make all database updates performed since a last database commit operation a permanent part of the database.

