From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-27T19:34:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Faster Marshaling?

On 27.07.2008 12:21, Robert Klemme wrote:

> But given the problem description I would definitively go for a 
> relational or other database system.  There is no point in inventing the 
> wheel (aka fast indexing of large data volumes on disk) yourself.  You 
> might even check RAA for an implementation of B-trees.

Just after sending I remembered a thread in another newsgroup.  The 
problem sounds a bit related to yours and eventually the guy ended up 
using CDB:

http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html

There's even a Ruby binding:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/cdb/

His summary is here, the problem description is at the beginning of the 
thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.programmer/msg/420c2cef773f5188

Kind regards

	robert