From: James Dinkel <jdinkel@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T00:32:01+09:00
Subject: Re: should I use a database or a flat file?


> But ultimately it depends on what you want to do with the data.

yeah, it's kinda hard to describe without just posting my entire script, 
which I doubt people will want to read.

The data will be accessed by one ruby script, running on one computer. 
The data will be read in, then the file closed and done for a couple 
hours.  So no concurrent access, no relations, no keeping the connection 
open for extended periods of time, which is why I thought a database 
would probably be overkill and just add overhead.

But I didn't know if maybe reading a file into memory would take more 
effort than reading entries from a database.  Also, I was a little off 
on the numbers, I meant to say that there are hundreds of names per 
category, so total names could be over a thousand.  That size will 
likely never ever change beyond +/- 100 at the most.

Thanks for the info.  I'm really a newb at this, so any thoughts on 
storing data using any of these methods is helpful.

James.
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