The link database contains information about links, such as their ID, their URL, their title, their description, and so forth. The link database is a sqlite file. The reason this information is not in the MariaDB database is that this would make updates to this information take effect in production immediately, even before the information was searchable. It is constructed by the [loading-process](../../processes/loading-process), and consumed by the [index-service](../../services-core/index-service).