Flat Buffers could incredibly speed up the retrieval and storage of objects assuming the models a person is storing supports flat buffers. In a simple way, this could just be done by modifying the underlaying database to use a byte array rather than a String for data and allowing a flatbuffer style serializer that stores and retrieves the bytes to the flat buffer. Since flat buffers are tied to the Model implementation, the developer would still have to use their models with a flat buffer.