Data storing

[Joel Goldstick]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 01:19 pm, Anup reni wrote:
>
> > Hi I'm new to python and planning to make a web app which contains a
> large
> > amount of data and involves comparing two data sets. Which is better to
> > use in python, a Dictionary or Mysql?
>
> "Hi, I'm planning to transport a large number of objects from one place to
> another. Which is better for me to use, a ship or an airplane?"
>
> :-)
>
> Well, it depends.
>
> How much data? You might think 100 MB is a lot of data, but Python won't.
>
> How are you planning to compare them? What sort of comparisons do you
> intend
> to do?
>
> If all you have is a set of key:value pairs, then dicts are the obvious
> choice. They are built-in and very fast, but unordered. They'll be good for
> millions or tens of millions of records, but they aren't persistent data
> storage. You will have to load them to and from disk each time the
> application starts. Perhaps the "shelve" module might help you with that.
>
> If you have many different relationships, and you want, or need, to use SQL
> commands to do some initial data processing, then you will certainly need a
> real database, not dicts.
>
> I would prefer Postgresql rather than MySQL, **especially** if you need to
> support non-ASCII (Unicode) data.
>
> But really, to decide which would be best for you, we would need to know a
> lot more about your application and its requirements.
>
>
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> Steven
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Steven, in your case, how about the star trek transporter?

Sorry, its early for me, and I want to be respectful, but questions like
this seem to have a little flavor of "who would win? super man or mighty
mouse?"

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