Our 1st client has a PurePerlDB database of more than 100 million records and has at times more than 1,000 users simultaneously using the data base. Big Data is real today and benchmarks of 10,000 records just don't tell the story.

Good luck, and your not alone!

Regards...Ed

Ed, thanks for the productive comment. Back 17 years ago, around 2000, I was asked by Bank of America to write an invoice Flat File record editor application in Win32 Perl (with a native Windows, Win32::GUI module user-interface). Back then I had not discovered tandem use of Flat Files with persistent SDBM indexing to the Flat File records. I remember how my application would have to read in the entire Flat File (at launch) and create the indexes in memory each time. This was a bit of a pain for my end-user. Regards...Eric