I think he meant "external" to Perl ...
A lot of the initial discussion was certainly predicated on assumptions; there was not a lot of detail in the request.

For example, I assumed we were talking about half a million or less records, each with a primary key and possibly a secondary key. Given my assumptions, it's not too painful to use a Hash of Hashes. For exact queries, the hash is a Big Win. For a partial query, doing a foreach through the hash isn't that painful.

As soon as the OP mentioned he was talking gigabytes of data, I withdrew my original suggestion.

So DBI+DBD::SQLite does fit the bill.
I agree completely.

In reply to Re^5: perl database question by apl
in thread perl database question by baxy77bax

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