keep in mind it's a matter of scale. If the application will take several years to grow beyond the current requirements, then you're fine. If the requirements are going to grow rapidly, then you may still want to use Oracle for your mined data. If you're dealing with only a couple thousand files and the growth rate is managable, then file system should last for a while. On the otherhand, if you know within the first two years the number of files will double each year, you may want to create an abstraction layer for yourself. This way you can store the summaries locally for now. then when the dataset size grows past a certain point, you can implement oracle and move the storage of the mined data in oracle. That should give you enough flexbility to grow without rewriting huge percentage of the app. peter Swapneel Dange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:yeah i know what ur saying PENG , but i am still at a very basic stage in the FILESYSTEM implementation , thats why before i move any further, i was making sure as to whether considering the ROBUST structure and all that stuff into account will it be better if i implement the SQLPLUS or stick to the FILESYSTEM!
comments awaited ! Swapneel Dange 505-642-4126 http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~sdange --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more
