Re: db engines VS flat files

well so start to bite your tonge :-) because yes there are some very large collections of datas stored as flat text files, so do bite it and do it very hard because this large amounts of datas may almost doble the size every year... and most of them are being searched and manipulated with perl scripts. I do not know if has been that way because of not knowign search engines, do not think that is the case, that I do not know but my
question remains..... ok, for only seraching patterns with in this falt files wich would be the difference between having a real search engine and just having perl scripts for searching patterns with in this flat text files? until now all I can say is that most of administrative tasks are quite dificult to do under perl and shell scripts, and c progrmas, but for the rest and even knowing that all this works under cgis, it works fine well... so do not laught so hard may loose your tonge.... :-)

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jared Still wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 06:40:19 -0800
> From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: Re: db engines VS flat files
>
>
> In addition to Greg's comments I would like to add
> that anyone suggesting flat files for 50 gig of data
> is probably not at all familiar with database technology.
>
> Perl is an excellent language for manipulating data, but
> it is not a database engine. 50 gigs of data is totally
> unmanagable as flat files.
>
> Personally, were someone to suggest that to me I would have
> to bite my tongue to contain the laughter.
>
> At the very least, something like MySQL should be used.
>
> For a look at what is available in the way or database
> interfaces for Perl, have a look at:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/Catalog/Database_Interfaces/
>
> Jared
>
>
> On Sunday 09 September 2001 12:40, agc wrote:
> > I would like to know your opinion about the developments under for
> > example perl for handling large amounts of datas (sets of flats files
> > larger than 50 gigs) vs the option of using oracle for exmaple for doing
> > the same task, wich would be more eficinet? why? cheers
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