On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > the activity is search and read and almost no update activity; When > matching texts against the DB, the length is not known, and the longest > key (that is matching) is taken; The time to find a match is critical). > > (currently I use a special variation of Patricia Trie that I modified > and improved for my own needs).
I would suggest that you have a look at the standard dictionary-access protocol: * RFC2229 defines the protocol * http://www.dict.org/links.html is a homepage of a "reference implementation" , and includes some useful links, including some other implementations IIRC the standard allows searches other than a simple query . The server may choose to implement (configurable) only some of them, depending on the resources the sysadmin sees fit to allocate. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
