What kind of backend are you running? (php, asp, etc) If it was me (and i program in .NET), i'd make an initial call to the DB to grab all records, cache it to disk or memory, then hit the cache with the AJAX calls
I do something like this for ~ 1000 records and it behaves really fast :-) On May 10, 8:57 am, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've got a list of 2000+ names that need to be filtered via an > autocomplete method. > > I am wondering what is the best way to implement this? From what I can > see I can either do it via an ajax request to the server that queries > a database server side and returns a matching list, or via Javascript > I load an XML document client side and filter through that? > > Does anyone have any experiences with implementing this for a large > dataset? > > Many thanks > > Alex
