From: brunomadv at ciudad.com.ar (Bruno Mattarollo)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:29:07 GMT
Subject: Kosovo database; Python speed
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I presume that a SQL engine would be the fastest solution and all the
programming, in my opinion, should be done in Python using a database
connector. It depends on the uses you will give to this DB, but MySQL should
be the better choice. If you need data consistency (via FK) and a
transactional database, you should be looking perhaps to a commercial SQL
engine like Oracle or MS-SQL ... But if it's for querys mainly, MySQL if
damn fast ... :-)

Hope this helps... and specially I hope this helps a little bit for the
people of Kosovo...

/B

Bruno Mattarollo <bruno at gaiasur.com.ar>
... proud to be a PSA member <http://www.python.org/psa>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-request at cwi.nl [mailto:python-list-request at cwi.nl]On
> Behalf Of Richard van de Stadt
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 7:39 AM
> To: python-list at cwi.nl
> Subject: Kosovo database; Python speed
>
>
> Suppose we were going to make a database to help Kosovars locate
> their family members. This would probably result in hundreds of
> thousands of records (say 1 record (file) per person).
>
> Would Python be fast enough to manage this data, make queries on
> the data, or should compiled programs be used?
>
> Richard.
>





