I am trying to figure out which bears a heavier load on a system:
- A database operation
- OR a File operation (AKA reading an XML file)
Thanks in advance!
I am trying to figure out which bears a heavier load on a system:
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I am trying to figure out which bears a heavier load on a system:
Thanks in advance!
Usually file operations are slower than DB operations.
If you want to store a data collection in an XML file (ie. an XML database) I would unrecommend it, strongly. DBMSs implement lots of performance optimizations via indexes and caches: most of DB data is held in memory.
If you want to write large payloads to DB columns, it’s not more efficient than having a column that points to a file and store the raw data inside the file.