RE: My thoughts on this issue

Justin R. Erenkrantz (justin nospam at erenkrantz.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:00:49 -0800

> cddb.com could be underreporting their hits, I suppose...

Does this include all of their mirrors? If not, that query number probably
skyrockets a bit.

> I agree that a full RDBMS approach is probably more than some
> people would want to bite off (even though the implementation would
> be easy, there may not be many willing to dedicate their
> 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.

Oracle8 on Linux is free (no source though), isn't it? MySQL and others
(Post) could also be used (free the source!). Not sure what the performance
ratio between MySQL and Oracle/Sybase is.

Beginning to think a RDBMS for submissions and maintenance with DNS for
queries is going to be the best way to handle this.

Justin