On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In my experience, for a number of use cases, including possibly this one,
> a database is overkill. Often, flat files in a directory system indexed by
> something like Solr is plenty and you avoid the inevitable headaches of
> being a database administrator. Backup, for example, is a snap and easily
> automated.
>
I'm with Roy -- no need to use a chain saw to cut butter.
Out of curiosity, since the use case is an annotated bibliography, how much
stuff do you have? If you have only a few thousand entries in delimited
text, flat files could be easier and more effective than other options.
kyle
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