Hi All - Looking for some suggestions of how I can/should implement a daily counter solution for a large number of items/users (ie. millions). I need to be able to quickly lookup up the current count for a user and either increment it or skip the user based on a set limit. All the counters will be reset at every day midnight..

My first thought was to just use a BerkeleyDB file, tie it as hash, check the user_id and count, then either imcrement or skip if a limit is reached. Should i create a new file daily or reset all the values in the file?

Does any have any suggestions for alternatives that might be better? Should I use a db mysql? sqlite?

Here is my critera for this:


- must me able to be accessed my multiple scripts at the same time.
- fast lookups
- In the future might need to accessed from multiple servers

Any thoughts or suggestions is appreciated. Thanks

In reply to Daily Counters by docbrown25

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