Welcome james.hans,

More than likely, SQL will do more to limit the 'hits per hour' than Perl will. I have a high volume web application that builds 30-50K lines of HTML per request and Perl does it's part in 100 milliseconds or less per core.

But why not bench-mark this for yourself. It will make your company feel a lot safer with the decision. And I know you will get a lot of help and encouragement here!

Good Luck...Ed