mysql viability (was: shells and bells)

[Jerry Callen]

Ron Peterson wrote:
Let's flog this dead horse a little longer and see if it moves...

> If all you care about is read performance, you're not really 
> creating much of an _application_, so much as, umm, a card file.

Or a read-mostly database, which is very common in the so-called
"data warehousing" market space. I'm personally using a "data base"
(currently a collection of flat files...) of moderate size (5-10GB)
that is updated about 2 or 3 times a year. Read performance is all
that matters.

At the moment, it's not using *any* database management system. :-(

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen at narsil.com
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