Hello all, I am new to MySQL and am exploring the possibility of using it for my work. I have about ~300,000 e-books, each about 100 pages long. I am first going to extract each chapter from each e-book and then basically store an e-book as a collection of chapters. A chapter could of course be arbitrarily long depending on the book.
My questions are: (1) Can MySQL handle data of this size? (2) How can I store text (contents) of each chapter? What data type will be appropriate? longtext? (3) I only envision running queries to extract a specific chapter from a specific e-book (say extract the chapter titled "ABC" from e-book number XYZ (or e-book titled "XYZ")). Can MySQL handle these types of queries well on data of this size? (4) What are the benefits/drawbacks of using MySQL compared to using XML databases? I look forward to help on this topic. Many thanks in advance. Andy
