Re: speed: file vs. DB

Hi

to add some more information what we need this for. Sorry, that I forgot
to throw in this information right away:

We need to write only about 5 lines to the file - or 1 record to the DB.
It's only needed to tell the indexer (of TSEP) which reads the contents of
the files that another instance of the indexer is already running. So, the
first instance started will write to the file / db record when it has been
started and that it is running at time X (every 30 seconds)
The reading (from the file/record) is only done if a instance of the
indexer is started and there IS a record already.

Olaf

> I am the administrator of TSEP - The Search Engine Project
> (www.tsep.info). We developer are unclear about the speed of two
> different methods: Is it faster to
> a) write to a file
> or
> b) update a record in a database
>
> Olaf
>

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