On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Simon Rosenthal wrote:
> an RDBMS is not much more trouble to purge, if you have a
> time-of-last-update field. And if you're ever going to access your cache
> from multiple servers, you definitely don't want to deal with locking
> issues for DBM and filesystem based solutions ;=(
RDBMS does bring replication and backup issues. The DBM and FS solutions
definately have their advantages. It would not be too difficult to write
a serialized daemon that makes request over the net to a DBM file.
What in you experience makes you pick the overhead of an RDBMS for a simple
cache in favor of DBM, FS solutions?
--
Sander van Zoest [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Covalent Technologies, Inc. http://www.covalent.net/
(415) 536-5218 http://www.vanzoest.com/sander/
