I'm looking to find the most efficient way to handle (what I could consider) to be large amounts of temporary data in VB.NET.
I'm looking to store 300,000 strings of data, each string can have up to around 500 characters within it.
If my calculations are correct (they probably are not!), this would require RAM of around 143 megabytes (worst case scenario). I'm a little uneasy about storing this amount of data in RAM - would you be concerned?
Is it perhaps better to store this as perm data in a database and make queries to that database when/if I need to query the data further?
What would you generally work with as a best practice limit on temporary data storage?
Thanks in advance!
Jordan
I'm looking to store 300,000 strings of data, each string can have up to around 500 characters within it.
If my calculations are correct (they probably are not!), this would require RAM of around 143 megabytes (worst case scenario). I'm a little uneasy about storing this amount of data in RAM - would you be concerned?
Is it perhaps better to store this as perm data in a database and make queries to that database when/if I need to query the data further?
What would you generally work with as a best practice limit on temporary data storage?
Thanks in advance!
Jordan