Hugh Senior wrote:
>
> >On the other hand, if your data will fit in memory, then MetaCard is a
> >great way to store it, database or not. I don't have experience of stacks
> >larger than about 1000 cards, but I have used MetaCard on blocks of data
> >as large as a few megabytes (30,000 lines in a text block, at about 100
> >bytes per line) and a judiciously applied filter command can slice that
> >like butter. Specifically, I broke it down into thousand-line chunks
> >ahead of time, and ran the filter on each of them. It's actually very
> >fast, and allows for good results. But it's not 30,000 cards, or even
> >2000. Just a few, with data displayed dynamically in the fields.
>
> The spellCheck.mc utility maintains about 130,000 lines stored as a
> userProp and indexes them on openStack using arrays[a-z] for fast
> on-the-fly string comparisons.
That's the way i will probably use soon. Thank's Hugh :-)
> A project management database in mc of about 5,500 records is also very
> fast. The use of marked cards handles subsets without a glitch and is
> especially valuable in complex analysis reporting with data arrays and charts.
>
> The main drawback about using mc as a database is the lack of built-in
> simultaneous concurrent users and save-on-idle.
It's probably no difficult to lock/unlock the needed record, before
replacing it with the new datas stored in a time-based temp var/file.
On the up side, you can do
> much more in terms of customised functionality and interactive behaviour
> than eg FileMaker. Horses for courses.
>
> /H
>
> Hugh Senior
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