Async API

[davidbrochart]

Problem

This package deals with file systems and databases, which can be very slow to operate compared to the CPU.
Also, it will be used in a web server where performance is critical.

Proposed Solution

I think we should make all file-system and database related functions async, for instance using aiofiles and aiosqlite.

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