Re: File/data structure information

Dave <no_email@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I have been Googling to find information about the pros and cons of
different file and data structures within a file incl. databases).
Would a appreciate a pointer to either some online documents or a good
primer text. I don't have any specific questions and the information
needs to be language and operating system agnostic.

The applications are for storing/finding strings, strings within
strings, numerical data, etc. In other words, very general.

Do you have more than 1GB or 2GB of data?

If not, don't bother with the various files or databases. You can load
everything in RAM, and do all your processing in RAM.

If you have more data than the RAM size, then just put it in a
database, and leave it up to the good database programmers to decide
what is best...

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