thanks a lot, WizardOfUz.

Let's presume that I wanted to mimick the code of my berkeley data base, though, in which I first look up whether the key already exists, and then I combine values into the same key if it is already there. in this case, was my original assessment of sqlite's speed correct? that is, I first need to insert every record, so that I can look up the next record.

if this is true, then it seems to me that the berkeley data base would be a lot faster for situations in which "bulk inserts" are not possible, but sqlite is much faster for situations in which it is.

I have not installed mysql, but I wonder if someone could tell me how fast/slow the same code in mysql would be.

In reply to Re^3: fast simple DB (sqlite?) skeleton? by iaw4
in thread fast simple DB (sqlite?) skeleton? by iaw4

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