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Re: mySQL or Flat Files, Which is fasterby CountZero (Bishop) |
| on Feb 08, 2004 at 15:07 UTC ( [id://327463]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Speed is of course a major thing to consider, but equally (if not more) important is the matter of concurrent access to your data-files. Flat files not living within a database server allow multiple readers but cannot allow multiple concurrent writers. Database servers (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL) allow such multiple read and write access. If you take that into account, there is no choice: only a real database server will do. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law
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