tilly: "Perhaps because the section is named Perl Wisdom and not Perl Masochists?"

hehe

tilly: "It would be nice if you were able to see that quote from my perspective and decide to apologize for the intended insult."

Sorry. But actually there was no insult intended, but as you two times pointed out that you cannot help, i just wanted to point out that there might be others that might be able / willing to.

tilly: "If you want to disbelieve me, go ahead. In which case for someone with a Perl background and no CS background I would suggest starting at Bricolage: B-Trees and seeing how far you get. That will at least give you a key algorithm. But, for instance, that won't go into the details of how to really do it far enough to understand what any of the key parameters are that people want to tune in real dbms, let alone why they matter..."

Oh, maybe i would just use Progress DB and be happy or maybe i would just use a plain file, who knows.
Thinking you just assume too much. Your wild guessing about backgrounds and understanding at least indicate this.