Cheers Ram�n, and thanks to everybody for your replies! Wow, these are great news for me: Cache' seems the best technology for this kind of things.
Performance is not an issue in our case, but using sparse arrays improves the quality of code a lot, and this makes the difference for us, since we're going to re-sell the solution to more than one customer. Max "Max Sebastiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, I'm wondering if sparse arrays in COS are suitable for > multidimensional data analysis. > > My intention is to store information into arrays like: > > s ProductsSold("Apple","1997","december","Venezuela")=2000 > > and create some routines to manipulate them (collapse dimensions, apply > functions to each term, distribute values, etc). > > My first question is: are sparse arrays (in memory, not globals) limited to > 32k ? > > Max > >
