What's the difference?

If you have the requirement to store data and to retrieve that data a complete row at a time and there is no requirement for searching specific portions of that row's data (name, phone, address, etc) and ignoring ACID properties, transactional proerties, etc (i.e. just focusing on storing and retrieving the data by some database unique identifier).....

All that said then is there a difference between storing the rows in a dbm file or in a relational database? There is a lot that a RDBMS provides that dbm (ndbm, sdbm, gdbm, et. al.) will not provide, but with respect to simply storing and retrieving the data... is there any difference?

Mike Received on Wed May 21 2003 - 09:45:55 CDT