Sure I've used a SQL DB. A file stored in a DB is slower to load than a file on disk. This doesn't speak to indexing and cacheing that a DB might have (not to mention that DBs are usually way better machines than your desktop). Of course, you can apply these techniques to files on disk as well.
-----Original Message----- From: Oliver Lange Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: > > Using a SQL DB would increase the data stored on the harddisk. It is also > slower than raw file access. The deal breaker is that you don't want to > depend on a SQL DB for minimal installs. ?? Did you ever use a SQL db ? Responses for queries within such 'tiny' databases (only 70,000 entries) come within a finger snap. qpkg needs several seconds for a query on a 2 GHz machine. You're right about the problem of choosing the right SQL database to be installed. If i'd suggest to add MySQL or Postgres to gentoo-stage-2, i would no doubt get a million of answers from people who'd call me crazy. Of course it would have to be a *tiny* and *independent* instance of a database which shouldn't conflict with any other installation of the same (or other) database(s) for other purposes. I see that this is kinda problem, but the advantages were great, especially for beginners who could easily learn to handle things, and - as a side effect - learn SQL.. Well, just an idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
