No, I don't think Storable would be a better option for this. With Storable, you would have to load the entire database into memory just to search it. DB_File creates fast, indexed access to records without actually loading them into RAM.

However, your suggestion of getting an array of matches for each criterion and then finding the overlapping set is a good one. You can make one DB_File database for each criterion (make.db, model.db, etc.) and then the content for each record could be a list of car IDs (like unique object IDs) that you use to look up the car data in a separate content database (also a DB_File, with data serialized using Storable in each record).

However, it would be much easier to just use MySQL.

In reply to Re: Re: Question about properly laying out a database by perrin
in thread Question about properly laying out a database by Stamp_Guy

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