On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Eric Luhrs wrote:
> database instead of 12 smaller ones? I use htdig to search 12 years worth
> of mailing list posts. If users choose to restrict their search to only
> one of those years, will one large database return significantly slower
Depends on your definition of "slower" and your hardware. There's no
argument that a larger database will require more disk accesses. And in
the case you offer, the larger database will generate a larger set of
matches that it will have to restrict.
But think about it this way... What do you do when the user wants to
search all 12 years? Certainly the 3.2 code now offers "collections," but
there's also no argument that this is going to be slower than one large
database.
Tradeoffs are never easy. :-)
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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