This looks like a Bio Perl problem. I would look at those Perl modules.

11,000,000 records is pretty big! If you want to do a lot of searching, then an SQL DB is a good idea. I recommend SQlite although MySQL is fine albeit there are some admin hassles. SQLite has an advantage in that the DB is just a single file and all of this admin password and setting up accounts is not necessary. However, 11 million records isn't all that big as a hash table.

If you load this into a SQLite DB and then generate an index based upon NAME. A name based query will run fast.

What have you tried so far?

Either MySQL or SQLite can handle this number of records easily.

In reply to Re: Efficient way to handle huge number of records? by Marshall
in thread Efficient way to handle huge number of records? by Anonymous Monk

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