my new project, is this the right way?

[Matt Joiner]

Sounds like you want a key-value store. If it's a lot of data, you may
still want a "database", I think it's just relational databases that
you're trying to avoid?

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:41 AM, 88888 Dihedral
<dihedral88888 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, November 26, 2011 1:01:34 AM UTC+8, rusi wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 3:41 pm, Tracubik <affdfs... at b.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > i'm developing a new program.
>> > Mission: learn a bit of database management
>> > Idea: create a simple, 1 window program that show me a db of movies i've
>> > seen with few (<10) fields (actors, name, year etc)
>> > technologies i'll use: python + gtk
>> > db: that's the question
>> >
>> > since i'm mostly a new-bye for as regard databases, my idea is to use
>> > sqlite at the beginning.
>> >
>> > Is that ok? any other db to start with? (pls don't say mysql or similar,
>> > they are too complex and i'll use this in a second step)
>> >
>> > is there any general tutorial of how to start developing a database? i
>> > mean a general guide to databases you can suggest to me?
>> > Thank you all
>> >
>> > MedeoTL
>> >
>> > P.s. since i have a ods sheet files (libreoffice calc), is there a way to
>> > easily convert it in a sqlite db? (maybe via csv)
>>
>> To learn DBMS you need to learn sql
>> [Note sql is necessary but not sufficient for learning DBMS]
>> I recommend lightweight approaches to start with -- others have
>> mentioned access, libreoffice-base.
>> One more lightweight playpen is firefox plugin sqlite-manager
>>
>> > Is that ok? any other db to start with? (pls don't say mysql or similar,
>> > they are too complex and i'll use this in a second step)
>>
>> Correct. First you must figure out how to structure data -- jargon is
>> normalization.
>> After that you can look at transactions, ACID, distribution and all
>> the other good stuff.
>
> If I have a fast hash library  that each hash function supports insertion and deletion and can be frozen to be stored into the file system if desired and retrieved lator . Can I use several hashes to replace a database that is slow and expensive?
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