Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

[Paul Makepeace]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:09:41PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I've just started work on a personal project which will make heavy use
> of serialised objects.  The logical way to store these, IMO, is with
> MLDBM*.

You just don't want to do that. Everyone I've ever heard from that's
gone down the *DBM route has regretted it in all but the most trivial read-only or
single-app case. Locking, concurrency, odd gotchas. And actually it
isn't all that fast.

I just wouldn't bother. Go straight to the RDBMS. Bear in mind in some
cases (notably Oracle, and MySQL can be made to fly too) Perl is the
limiting factor, not the database. YMMV, IMO, etc

Paul

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