If I have a small database with fixed table layouts can I get any kind of performance benefit from handling the data myself rather than using a backend like MySQL? What are the benefits to using such a database backend?
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If I have a small database with fixed table layouts can I get any kind of performance benefit from handling the data myself rather than using a backend like MySQL? What are the benefits to using such a database backend?
Databases provide ACID features (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID) which are hard to deliver when rolling your own solution.
In addition, databases tend to scale to larger volumes of data with better performance characteristics.