>Using custom properties and/or custom property arrays should handle
>this just fine. Performance and reliability should be good with this
>approach, and the only significant limitation would be that the full
>size of the database should fit comfortably in memory (e.g., on a PC
>with 64MB RAM you should probably only consider this if your database
>size is only going to be a few MB, on a UNIX system with 256MB RAM 20
>or 30MB database should be fine as long as you're not loading and
>saving the whole thing every second or two). Something like this
>built as a long-running process (e.g. an add-on to the mchttp server)
>would be a viable replacement for a lot of things being done with
>the big RDBMS systems.
> Regards,
> Scott
Thanks for the feedback. Given the memory limitation (it will be a
WIn 95/98/NT desktop rather than a Unix box), is a file-based
approach viable at all?
Cheers
Peter
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