From: Jason Crystal <jcrystal@...>
Date: 2008-08-26T03:44:17+09:00
Subject: Which is faster for repetition: Ruby or SQL?

Hey all,

I was wondering if there was a general consensus for whether it's faster
to do repetitive queries solely through Ruby (as on an array), or to
make multiple calls to a SQL database of some sort.

For example, if I have a dictionary, and I know I need to compare an
entire paragraph's worth of words to the dictionary, should I query each
word against the database?  Or load the entire dictionary into a Ruby
object and index against that?

Thanks for your thoughts!
-Jason
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.