So, uncached, it is a relatively trivial thing to implement, but will be very, very slow.

Thank you for your deep analysis. This solved my problem to find suitable tie module.

I understand now better why this is not so trivial (as I presumed) to get an universal solution. The problem with tied system means lots of unnecessary file access and caching means problems with multitasking.

I decided to go with my own solution. My program practically keeps all data in memory but when data it is updated it writes the whole record to the file after the record is fully updated.

open (DFH,">",DATADIR.$key) or die;
print DFH "$_=>$record{$_}\n" foreach (keys %record);
close DFH;

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When the program loads it scans the directory and reads all records in memory. At this time I do not need sharing between processes so I am using shared variables for threads. Otherwise I should check flocks and timestamps every time when I access the record again.

open (DFH,"<",DATADIR.$key) or die $key;
my %record = split(/=>|\n/o,<DFH>);
close DFH;

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This way the last available data is always in file system and is user modifiable between runs.

In reply to Re^6: Database in a folder? by AriSoft
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