Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions

[Rob Scott]

Well you're going to need a db anyway to manage
things, and storing the entries in the db means that
they are very easily searchable, the search is fast,
and they are all in one place, as opposed to a large
confusing directory structure.   If you're planning of
just throwing loads of xml files into a directory,
youre going to need a db to remember where everything
is and what the titles are for searcing.

I dont know if any of what i just said makes sense, i
just got up.   But the main advantage is that this
system in very clusterable, meaning that if we start
to get more demand on the site,  we just add more
boxen.

--- Mike Warren <address@hidden> wrote: > Tom
Chance <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > We just know its advantages and general workings,
> not its minutae
> > setup and code, as yet lol.  So if anyone here
> knows sufficient
> > Perl, DBI and CGI stuff...
> 
> What exactly are the advantages of using a MySQL
> database? I'm not
> extremely familiar with it, but I don't see why
> human readable files
> (in XML or SGML or whatever) aren't a Good Thing.
> 
> -- 
> address@hidden
> <URL:http://www.mike-warren.com>
> GPG: 0x579911BD :: 87F2 4D98 BDB0 0E90 EE2A  0CF9
> 1087 0884 5799 11BD
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bug-gnupedia mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupedia


____________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie