Back Again - RPM using a more efficient database format

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Aug 1 12:21:28 UTC 2007


> Just a simple parse using DOM and using the right way the child elements 
> should solve everything.
> Isn't it more practical and efficient rather than using a SQL based 
> database?

SQL Databases are designed to do queries fast. XML is a verbose format
for the structured *interchange* of data, not a way to store it for fast
updating.

Alan




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