For a single-tasking, (ie. no concurrency issues) application, a well-written, non-DB (RDBMS) solution will always be able to out-perform an RDBMS solution for any given task.

Not necessarily. In over simplified theory you would be correct but, what if you have terabytes or exabytes of data to search?

You make the inaccurate assumption that DBMS == RDBMS, which is not true. It may be that 90% or more of all databases are built around the relational model, there are plenty that are not.. consider DataWarehousing, an often misunderstood concept. RDBMS solutions rarely fit the needs of Datawarehousing. What about ODBMS (object database management systems) such as Poet?

Jason L. Froebe

No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

In reply to Re^2: Basic Perl trumps DBI? Or my poor DB design? by jfroebe
in thread Basic Perl trumps DBI? Or my poor DB design? by punch_card_don

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