What are the expected sizes of the data structures? It may easily be the case that the right place for the data is a database,
Size is the wrong criteria here.
A large, shared data structure will out-perform a "database" -- even an in-memory DB -- if the preponderance of accesses are read-only.
not an ad hoc, shared, frail data structure
Why does a (usually considered, "very reliable"), Perl data-structure, suddenly become "unreliable", because it is shared?
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When you attempt to update it. It's easy to forget a lock or (in case of a deep structure) add something that's not shared.
Size is one of the criteria. Once it all doesn't fit in memory ... In either case with so little information, we can just give suggestions.
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