Re: My thoughts on this issue

Alan Cox (alan nospam at redhat.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:50:15 -0500 (EST)

> Is this using anything approaching a full data set in size, or an
> approach to lookups that would apply to such a data set? That is,

That would depend on the full set size. My guess is with a typical
disk subsystem you might be in the 400-500 realm

> I agree that a full RDBMS approach is probably more than some
> Sybase/Oracle/whatever server to the job), but we should keep the
> store of data in such a format that it can be dumped into a database
> w/o having to do much work. This probably means a structured format
> like XML or possibly something simpler of our own design.

Without a doubt the master db wants to be in something like that