[windup-dev] Ident data smaller - String to byte[]

[Ondrej Zizka]

On 14.2.2015 05:40, Ondrej Zizka wrote:
> I get your point - why write it when there's a DB.
>
> 1) It's another 1.5 MB jar added to the app, introducing more classes 
> to scan on startup for Providers, Models, etc.
> 2) The data producing module would have to be rewritten to produce 
> whatever H2DB consumes.
By that, I mean some pre-created DB with index. Without index, the DB 
would have to a) read the whole file or b) scan it sequentially.
> Changing this would be just few lines change.
>
> Ondra
>
> PS: Don't get me wrong, I like all databases - my thesis was 
> implemented in SQL :)
> And also, this is how I dealt with csv data in linux shell: 
> https://code.google.com/p/csv-cruncher/
>
> Ondra
>
>
> On 13.2.2015 05:38, Jess Sightler wrote:
>> H2 DB may be a good choice as well, as it supports pluggable filesystems
>> (including read-only zip format):
>> http://www.h2database.com/html/advanced.html#file_system
>>
>>
>> On 02/12/2015 10:22 PM, Ondrej Zizka wrote:
>>> 1) If the data in the file were put as binary, the size would reduce
>>> another ~ 25 %.
>>> The same if stored to the database (if we stored it there).
>>> Is it worth making the file not much readable as plain text?
>>>
>>> 2) Doing the same in data structures would reduce memory consumption
>>> around 45 %.
>>> But since it looks we will use the  the binary, it doesn't matter 
>>> much now.
>>>
>>> Ondra
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