BerkeleyDB does put a few limitations on you:
1) Not SQL. Should you decide you need to change databases for some reason, it will be more effort.
2) I am not sure if BerkeleyDB supports network access. As previously mentioned, network access is significantly slower, but it may be advantageous should you find a need to access the data from more than one system.
3) If you have lots of memory, and your record sizes are not too large, you can store the entire table in RAM, which makes MySQL much faster than using a disk table.
If you need to access the database very heavily, and the above are not important to you, BerkeleyDB is probably the way to go.

In reply to Re: BerkeleyDB and a very large file by Illuminatus
in thread BerkeleyDB and a very large file by kahn_ray@yahoo.com

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