Can anyone offer some insight into the following topic?
I would like to provide web access to search a large database of
information. Currently, I am using MySQL to do this, and it works great.
However, this database is almost entirely static, there are virtually no
inserts or updates done.
For accessing information with this structure, is an RDBM the most efficient
way to search through this information? I know Oracle has been modified to
use XML files as the database, making queries directly to a flat file
(although I have not seen it in action).
Does MySQL support anything of this nature, or is anyone working on any
module along these lines? What is the advantage for using a flat file? I
am fairly new to this kind of thing, I would like to learn more.
Thanks!
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