I need some advice for a good choice of data base in perl. not SQL, but simple---key, value.

The data base is about 32GB in ASCII format, with about 1GB in the keys (each variable length, but about 8 character on average), and the remaining 31GB in the values (also variable length).

I can get myself an 80GB SSD. thus, expansion of the source data into a data base by a factor of 2 is ok. expansion by a factor of 3-4 is not. in the world of db's, I think this space wastage would still be called "compact."

access is a little unusual, too. I mostly have bulk inserts (dump everything into the db) and I need very fast read access. I only rarely have individual inserts. being able to do them occasionally, even if only slowly (short of rebuilding the db completely, of course), would be very useful, though.

(think as application of a word hash that I am rebuilding every night, and I want to do real-time search as my users are typing words.)

suggestions?

/iaw

In reply to fast disk db with bulk insert, fast read access, compact storage by iaw4

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