Could someone please post a perl skeleton for fast insert/lookup for a really simple but persistent data base? Something like: 
my $numofwords= 50000000;
my %randomword;
for (my $i=0; $i<$numofwords; ++$i) {
  my @chars = ( "A" .. "Z", "a" .. "z", 0 .. 9, qw(! @ $ % ^ & *) );
  my $rin = join("", @chars[ map { rand @chars } ( 1 .. 5 ) ]) ) };
  if (defined($randomword{$rin})) { $randomword{$rin}.=",$i"; } else {
+ $randomword{$rin} = $i; }
}

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so, my data base can be very large (50 million words), but its structure is very simple. A key can have multiple records, but they are not complex. insertion and lookup speed are important.

I have tried a version with DBI and SQLite, but insertion was very, very slow. then again, this is the first time I am using a data base, so my attempts were rather naive.

advice appreciated. /iaw

In reply to fast simple DB (sqlite?) skeleton? by iaw4

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