I'm not sure I understand your objection to pre-loading the databases. If you want to improve on startup time over in-memory hashes, then you're going to have to have the data somewhere else first, which means you have to pre-load the data.

If you aren't doing that, then you are populating your data to memory first before it gets put into your hashes, and you aren't getting an initial startup time benefit. That's okay, since you'll get the benefit on subsequent uses, but there's also no reason you couldn't implement such a solution using e.g. Tie::DBI rather than pre-loading the data. After all, a tied hash that you couldn't add to wouldn't be very useful.

In short, it seems all of your options are interchangable depending on how you implement them. The difference is in how you want to write your implementation.

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