Hi all,
I'm going to start a project where I'll have to do some data analysis
(statistics about product orders) based on database entries; it will
mostly be some very basic stuff like grouping by certain rules and
finding averages as well as summing up and such. It will however be
more than what can be done directly in the database using SQL, so there
will be some processing in my program.
I'm thinking about trying to do this in Haskell (because I like this
language a lot); however, it is surely not my most proficient language
and I tried to do some number crunching (real one that time) before in
Haskell where I had to deal with some 4 million integer lists, and this
failed; the program took a lot more memory than would have been
necessary and ran for several minutes (kept swapping all the time, too).
A rewrite in Fortran did give the result in 6s and didn't run out of
space.
This was probably my fault at that time, because I surely did something
completely wrong for the Haskell style. However, I fear I could run
into problems like that in the new project, too. So I want to ask for
your opinions, do you think Haskell is the right language to do data
analysis of this kind? And do you think it is hard for still beginner
Haskell programmer to get this right so Haskell does not use up a lot of
memory for thunks or list-overhead or things like that? And finally,
are there database bindings for Haskell I could use for the queries?
Thanks a lot!
Daniel
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