Practicality of using DB_File on a Perl-based book site?

2008-06-20 Thread Christopher Morgan
I'm designing a web site that will display MARC authority files onscreen. I use a Perl hash that's tied to a (read-only) Berkeley DB_file, and it works nicely. How practical is this approach if there's going to be moderate traffic on a site? My DB_FILE is about 200MB, but of course Perl brings o

RE: Practicality of using DB_File on a Perl-based book site?

2008-06-20 Thread Christopher Morgan
Harrison, That's useful information. Yes, I'll only be doing lookups, which simplifies things quite a bit. Given what you said about the Movable Type software, I assume DB_FILE would be a good way to keep track of website user names, passwords, cookies, and the like? - Chris -Original Messa