It's comma delimited files BTW.
I'm not 100% sure I understand your question. A database is merely a stored collection of data, in whatever form you care for it to be. If I have saved 50 text files, loosely speaking, that is a database. Benifits of using a database? Errm.... whaddya mean? some sort of database is essential for tons of different programs. Microsoft works has templates that are in its database... it has a dictionary in its database... it has some sort of ruleset for grammar in its database. I supppose strictly speaking, that would be three different databases....
Agame of any substance would at a minimum have a database of images....
Maybe I still don't understand your question??