Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-20 Thread Doriano Blengino
Kevin Fishburne ha scritto: >>> My current plan is to create a directory for each region >>> ([65536/32/32]^2). Each region directory contains 32^2 data files >>> (1024). Hopefully this won't stress any particular file system as far as >>> how many directories and files are contained within a singl

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-18 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 04/18/2011 04:32 AM, Doriano Blengino wrote: > Kevin Fishburne ha scritto: >> On 04/15/2011 03:56 AM, Doriano Blengino wrote: >> >>> Kevin Fishburne ha scritto: >>> I'm in the early phases of creating a "database" that uses the file system for data organization rather than a traditiona

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-18 Thread Doriano Blengino
Kevin Fishburne ha scritto: > On 04/15/2011 03:56 AM, Doriano Blengino wrote: > >> Kevin Fishburne ha scritto: >> >>> I'm in the early phases of creating a "database" that uses the file >>> system for data organization rather than a traditional software database >>> such as MySQL,... >>>

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-17 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 04/15/2011 04:33 AM, Caveat wrote: > Hi Kevin > If you can find a way to talk to this database, it could provide just > what you're looking for in terms of speed: > > http://hsqldb.org/ > > It's a SQL database, but it can be run entirely in RAM. I've used it > before (although I don't recall us

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-17 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 04/15/2011 03:56 AM, Doriano Blengino wrote: > Kevin Fishburne ha scritto: >> I'm in the early phases of creating a "database" that uses the file >> system for data organization rather than a traditional software database >> such as MySQL, etc. I'm hoping that this could be faster since my >> re

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-17 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 04/15/2011 03:50 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Am 15.04.2011 09:22, schrieb Kevin Fishburne: >> I'm in the early phases of creating a "database" that uses the file >> system for data organization rather than a traditional software database >> such as MySQL, etc. I'm hoping that this could be f

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-15 Thread Caveat
Hi Kevin If you can find a way to talk to this database, it could provide just what you're looking for in terms of speed: http://hsqldb.org/ It's a SQL database, but it can be run entirely in RAM. I've used it before (although I don't recall using it from Gambas...yet!) and it's an amazing piece

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-15 Thread Doriano Blengino
Kevin Fishburne ha scritto: > I'm in the early phases of creating a "database" that uses the file > system for data organization rather than a traditional software database > such as MySQL, etc. I'm hoping that this could be faster since my > requirements are very specific and (I think) don't ne

Re: [Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-15 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 15.04.2011 09:22, schrieb Kevin Fishburne: > I'm in the early phases of creating a "database" that uses the file > system for data organization rather than a traditional software database > such as MySQL, etc. I'm hoping that this could be faster since my > requirements are very specific and (I

[Gambas-user] using a "file system database"

2011-04-15 Thread Kevin Fishburne
I'm in the early phases of creating a "database" that uses the file system for data organization rather than a traditional software database such as MySQL, etc. I'm hoping that this could be faster since my requirements are very specific and (I think) don't need a general purpose database. I w