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modify in memory and delay writes to disk and you can kiss it goodbye on poweroutage/system crash.

I took an exception on transaction support. He didn't specify what kind of database he needs - if it's being modified heavily, you want to have something that makes sure no data gets lost on a crash. But if all he does is querying, having it all in memory is what you want.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Selecting the right database for perl
by TacoVendor (Pilgrim) on Aug 19, 2003 at 22:05 UTC

    This is not going to be heavily modified by any means. Adding records will occur at a specific time each day. From that point on it is mostly a query and calculations of the data gathered, and then throwing results into an output file that will be read by a person.

    It is the calculations that I will do that worry me about memory.

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