On Sep 2, 8:00 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Is a database really the right thing at all? Generally a dictionary has
> very special/optimized look up (see for example the latin dictionary) and
> you are going to be able to get much much better space usage and lookup
> performance by having a dedicated data structure rather than relying on a
> very general-purpose SQL database. Especially if your database is fixed
> contents (not user editable), a database seems like significant overkill to
> me.
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
i agree with Dianne, if you have string key/value data and #rows is
quite large (hundrets of thousands) typical sqlite db would be huge -
with simple gzip compression you could have your data 1/3 smaller
pskink
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